need to tweak the time on guestbook

[token]

hi all!

i have just made a site but it is for people in taiwan,
i need to know if i can find a script that i am able to tweak the time to the taiwanese local time, which is 12 hours ahead of US eastern time....
any idea???

thanks

[mike_w]

There is an environmental variable that you can set - TZ - timezone. Definitions for the various timezones are located in /usr/share/zoneinfo - just browse this directory to find the correct name to set TZ to, it will be the file's name. If the correct file is in a directory under /usr/share/zoneinfo, then use this format - directory/filename, see the test script below for clarification.

Try this as a test and see if it reports the correct time for Taiwan -


Code Sample:

#!/usr/bin/perl $ENV{TZ} = 'Asia/Taipei'; print scalar localtime, "\n"; print scalar gmtime, "\n";

Just set TZ in your script and it should work.


[This message has been edited by mike_w (edited 04-25-00@4:43 pm)]

[token]

sorry but...i am not a perl programmer, could you please tell me where i can paste the file?

here is what i got for the date line...

# Get the Date for Entry
$date = `$date_command +"%A, %B %d, %Y at %T (%Z)"`; chop($date);
$shortdate = `$date_command +"%D %T %Z"`; chop($shortdate);

should i then replace the codes??

thanks i advance!

[mike_w]

That snippet of code doesn't help me much. But, it looks like that script is using /bin/date as the date command. Is there a line that reads -

$date_command = "/bin/date";

If so, then you can probably add this just before that line -

$ENV{TZ} = 'Asia/Taipei';

Which guestbook are you using? If you have a link to where I can get the source code I could look at it, wouldn't take me more than 10 or 15 minutes.

[token]

Hey thanks Mark!!

it is finally working.. but i am thinking using another powerful script....(call me greedy ) but imight have to come back and hassel u again if u got time

and...another thing is.... need a counter....like i want a real counter that can actually count howm any ppl have been visiting and all dat....got any idea?

thanks!!

[token]

Hey thanks Mike!!

it is finally working.. but i am thinking using another powerful script....(call me greedy ) but imight have to come back and hassel u again if u got time

and...another thing is.... need a counter....like i want a real counter that can actually count howm any ppl have been visiting and all dat....got any idea?

thanks!!

[token]

sorry i dunno was i was typing...plz forgive me if i got ur name wrong at the frist place......grin...

it is 4 am here in sydney and i still got lots to do...