What time is it?

[Mirai]

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Firefox is just a ctrl (epol) and + away. ;p

[$dbpasswd]

why are asking? your website seems to match the criterias...

Exmuse me, flashfreak. That's the server time. Server times are consistent to let the user know what time it is at the company's office.

The tiny fonts in flash websites are what irks me. They've disabled the r-click menu, too! So zooming in is impossible.

Point of the whole thing is: a lot of us users are bombarded with useless information cluttered up in the webpage.

[Rhee]

$dbpasswd: Why don't you tell us? Im sure you have tried 1 or any of those during your early days as a designer. What were you thinking and getting when putting those features in your websites as a fresh designer.

[$dbpasswd]

Never actually did. They just intrigued me the first time. After a while, I thought, "If the user's clock is wrong, so would my website's clock be. It's downright silly."

Take for example the Pinoy Big Brother website. During the TV show's running season, it used to have a big Flash clock counter that counts how long the inmates, este housemates, has been in the house. If your computer clock is wrong, so is the counter.

Right now, the counter is gone but watch when it comes back when another show season begins. Change your computer clock and it will count wrong. All the more, it will be inacurate to visitors outside the Philippines.

[vern]

* Why does a website tell you what time is it when it was just taken from your computer clock?
* Is it trying to remind me to get some sleep already?
* Why would I care to know the time while visiting the website?

Lots of legit uses of these clocks do not use javascript to take time from your computer clock. Time sensitive transactions benefit from this. Lots of websites misuse it though.

* Why does a website tell you that it is W3C compliant?
* Would it get revenue if I click on the Validate logo?
* Why would I care to know about whose powering it?
* PHP who? Your SQL? Does that come with iced tea?

1. A website tells you it is W3C compliant to tell the user that a browser that supports standards will be able to display the website as it should.
2. You do not get revenue, that isn't the point.
3. W3C Compliance does not "power" anything. If you are talking about server, software, etc ... then the regular user shouldn't care. Technical minded people however do. People in the business of giving web services for example want users who visit the site to know what they use.
4. Same shit as #3.

[$dbpasswd]

Good answers on the last one, vern.

Lots of legit uses of these clocks do not use javascript to take time from your computer clock. Time sensitive transactions benefit from this.

Are you trying to say there are other ways to get the time from my computer clock and report it to the server?
Why would it benefit time-sensitive transactions? It would be quiet easy to cheat then, if the time was derived from the client clock.

[vern]

Like I said ... DO NOT use javascript. Time is taken from the server and can be displayed using Ajax, simple refresh, etc. This is used in many web applications such as online banking. I pay all my bills online, and yes people do use clocks on webpages. Obviously clocks have no place in a 12 year old's personal blog, but my point is they do HAVE uses.