This is part of a club management system called Wild Apricot. Working with our webmaster is a real challenge. More organizational politics than anything I guess. Thanks for your comments.
Michael On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 7:10 AM, Michael Rasmussen <mich...@jamhome.us> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
