illustroWorldTime

[eclectic-tech]

illustroWorldTime.png

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6 Locations ~ Day and Time

Thanks to moshi's suggestions (and code ):
Updated to use Yandex time site
Corrects for Daylight Savings
Shows Time offset from GMT on mouseover name

(Pay no attention to the incorrect times in the preview... I just notice that! DA shows an updated view!)

[moshi]

95% of the users wont notice and will be just happy that there is something displayed

it will show the wrong times though every now and then. daylight saving time is not an easy task for Rainmeter.
http://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/measures/time#DaylightSavingTime


example skins that show the correct time using either Google or Yandex apis:
http://customize.org/rainmeter/skins/65672649
http://customize.org/rainmeter/skins/65673198
http://customize.org/rainmeter/skins/65673542
http://customize.org/rainmeter/skins/37047

[eclectic-tech]

95% of the users wont notice and will be just happy that there is something displayed

it will show the wrong times though every now and then. daylight saving time is not an easy task for Rainmeter.
http://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/measures/time#DaylightSavingTime


example skins that show the correct time using either Google or Yandex apis:
http://customize.org/rainmeter/skins/65672649
http://customize.org/rainmeter/skins/65673198
http://customize.org/rainmeter/skins/65673542
http://customize.org/rainmeter/skins/37047

Thanks for the links moshi.

Yeah, I always give myself a headache, when considering daylight savings adjustments...

I will look into those links for some coding insight for the other 5% who will notice it is not perfect.

[eclectic-tech]

Thanks to moshi's suggestions and examples, I was able to re-code the times to utilize Yandex's time site as the source for automatically corrected times.

You need to follow the instructions in the [Variables] section (moshi's guide) to obtain the Geoid codes from Yandex to set your locations.

DA link updated in first post...

@moshi
Thanks for your suggestion and all of your excellent examples
I couldn't have done this without your ideas

[moshi]

just a hint: for multiple time zones one parent measure would be enough:

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Url="http://time.yandex.com/sync.json?lang=en&geo=#LocationID1#%2C#LocationID2#%2C#LocationID3#..."

[eclectic-tech]

Okay... I staggered the enabling of my 6 measures, thanks for the 'hint'.

My code sometimes will not update the measures on !Refresh...
No errors in the log, but never gets the info...
maybe combining the measures, as you said, will correct it.
Corrected it, a Typo ... doh!

I appreciate your suggestions, and will work on this issue, it's how we learn

[ms310]

just a hint: for multiple time zones one parent measure would be enough:

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Url="http://time.yandex.com/sync.json?lang=en&geo=#LocationID1#%2C#LocationID2#%2C#LocationID3#..."

I had trouble with this as it was returning the values in a different order than I sent them in.

[eclectic-tech]

I had trouble with this as it was returning the values in a different order than I sent them in.

I tried it, and was too lazy to take the time to troubleshoot parsing differences
So I stuck with my initial scheme of 6 measures that worked for me (there is an 'updating' delay, but I can live with that)

[ms310]

Thanks - I added your logic to the vClouds timezones and was tinkering around.