On 2018-07-28 20:38, Michael Barnes wrote:
Not really specifically a Linux thing, but you are the best group of
folks
I have access to.
Considering an online store, we have an issue of a special sale coming
up
of a limited number of a product. We expect this item to be in high
demand
and folks will be waiting in line to purchase. We would like to
announce
the sale will start at Noon Pacific Time on the chosen date. We felt
this
would give the most customers an even chance to purchase as opposed to
starting at some seemingly random time.
First, does this seem like a logical concept? Our webmaster claims it
is
not doable with our current software. He says he can only have the sale
start at midnight, but he is unable to determine what time zone that
particular midnight is, whether it is our Pacific time or whatever time
zone the host server happens to be in (which we do not actually know).
He
also claims no known ecommerce software allows this and nobody who does
on
line sales would do such a thing.
I would guess it is not unlike buying tickets to a movie on line and
waiting until they go on sale to purchase and there only being a small
number available.
Any CMS worth its name allows publication at and after a specific time.
I'd press the webmaster.
If you share your CMS software/platform someone here may be able to
point out how it's done on that platform.
--
Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon
Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity
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