Jeffothy’s Keyings

So the Site Administration portion of hillsofjapan.com has been under test for the past 5 weeks or so. A bunch of smaller bugs have been killed and I plan to push it to production this month.

One of the most bothersome bugs for me right now is an issue to do with Timestamps. The site administration modules use AJAX extensively, which means a combination of client and server side scripting. The issue I’m facing stems from calculating timestamps using local client javascript in a different timezone than the server, which calculates some timestamps also. I think all is OK if the client’s computers timezone is set up correctly, however, stuff gets messy when the client is set up with the correct local time but the incorrect timezone.