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[Steve]

I did a search on discussion of time zone and found a few hints, but am still stumped on the following question:

How can I allow a user to click on a choice of viewing times in either Eastern or Central time zone. I'd prefer to make it a choice at the the intial Grid/List view as opposed to turning folks loose in the Admin menus.

All event times will be entered in Eastern time. However, a number of users will want to participate in events and need to conver over to Central time.

Granted, it is only an hour's difference, but you would not believe the number of time folks (including me) have tripped over the time zone.

-Steve

[DanO]

** How can I allow a user to click on a choice of viewing times in either Eastern or Central time zone. **

The only way I can see to do it would be to modify the sub populateTemplateVariables routine of calendar.pl to first check for a passed variable before setting the script time.

Right now that routing has:

sub populateTemplateVariables {
   $localtime_offset = 3600*$Config->get("time_zone_offset");
   ($now_ss,$now_mi,$now_hh,$now_dd,$now_mm,$now_yy,$now_wd,$now_yd,$now_dst)
= localtime(time+$localtime_offset);

You would have to do something like:

sub populateTemplateVariables {
if ( Passed_Variable )
{
$localtime_offset = 3600 * Passed_Variable ;
}
else
{
$localtime_offset = 3600*$Config->get("time_zone_offset");
}

     Keep in mind that the above is only pseudo code and not actual working code.

Dan O.

[This message has been edited by DanO (edited February 08, 2003).]