If your webmaster is talking about say an ecommerce suite that handles online ordering and you want any orders submitted after 12:00 noon to automatically bill at a different price than those submitted at say 11:59, then they could be right. The systems out there to handle online orders and stock tracking can be pretty complex and it is possible you don't have that set up.
If its just an issue of having the sale banner appear starting at noon some day, or a landing page appear different at that time and forward, then that is very doable. On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 1:00 PM Ben Koenig <techkoe...@gmail.com> wrote: > He appears to be assuming that you want some magical solution that checks > to see what timezone someone is connecting from, and presents the web page > based on where they are located. > > Looks like this guy just attempted to teach you how timezones work and > clearly has no idea that what you are doing is standard practice in > ecommerce. > > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Tyrell Jentink <tyr...@jentink.net> > wrote: > > > It's not even true that "nobody who does on line sales would do such a > > thing." > > > > OnePlus, a maker of high end specialty Android phones, recently released > a > > bluetooth in-ear headphone with lots of pre-release blog hype. The device > > itself has been released in small batches, always at 10am PST in the US; > > There is a different launch time in Europe, and a third in Asia, also > 10am > > in one of their local timezones... They seem to always sell out in mere > > minutes of the link going live, so the gimmick is working for them. They > > don't currently have a release scheduled, so I can't give you a link, but > > it at least conceptually proves that this is DEFINITELY a "Thing that is > > done in ecommerce", for pretty much the same set of reasons you would do > it > > in regular commerce, not the least of which to drive demand and hype. > > > > So this admin is obviously full of bunk... > > > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2018, 11:47 Michael Barnes <barnmich...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Darkness spoons with you. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
