Tamsin wrote: > Ever got the feeling you've opened a can of worms...
At one point we thought it would be a good idea to teach dipsy, the infobot on #london.pm, to tell the time in various places. This is useful when you've got friends at conferences and you want to know what time they'll be awake, or you've working with someone in another time zone and you want to know what time they'll probably be at their desk. Lots of people suggested lots of ways of doing it, and I ignored them all. Time and date stuff is hard. This is why whenever dipsy needs to know the time it makes no attempt to work it out itself - it scrapes the results from http://www.timeanddate.com. This also means it's someone else's problem when the aussies decide to change their clocks randomly when they're hosting the Olympics. The source is here: http://2shortplanks.com/temp/time2.txt And you can have a go at getting the time in a city by doing this: http://2shortplanks.com/temp/time2.cgi?w=New+York Note that it'll output it in a bastardised form of an RSS feed - since infobots have viewers built in for those. Mark. -- Mark Fowler http://www.twoshortplanks.com/ The 2002 Perl Advent Calendar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.perladvent.org/2002/ a different perl module featured every day
