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From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)27 Oct 2011 17:07
To: ALL1 of 13
I just clicked the clock to get the calendar, and I see the handy little hint:
"Daylight Saving Time ends on 30 October 2011 at 02:00. The clock is set to go back 1 hour at that time."

Which is handy, because I always forget when the blasted thing is going to be.

Annoyingly, there doesn't seem to be a way to make the calendar actually stay there - soon as I focus on anything else it disappears. :@

And I can only see a month at a time when I really want to see the next 4-5 weeks from now, irrespective of months. Why the fuck can't anyone produce a natural scrolling calendar instead of all this paginated nonsense!?! :@

Still, at least I've had a reminder about us getting back to our actual timezone, and I've only got to remember for the next three days.
From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)27 Oct 2011 17:10
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 2 of 13
It all started so promisingly, but your anti-rant ended up a little tetchy there.
From: Mouse27 Oct 2011 17:20
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 3 of 13
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)27 Oct 2011 17:23
To: Mouse 4 of 13
The colour, font, and text used are all highly offensive. :@
From: JonCooper27 Oct 2011 17:25
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 5 of 13
I also would like a calendar that shows the next few weeks from now, and not just the next 3 days cos October is almost over

I propose you make one
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)27 Oct 2011 17:43
To: JonCooper 6 of 13
I've made one before. Can't remember where it is though - might only exist in source control history at my old company now. :(

It's really not hard though, since internally dates are just continuous numbers - the difference between 31 Oct 2011 and 1 Nov 2011 to a computer is just 40847 vs 40848* - so you don't actually have to do anything fancy in any decent programming language.

(*or 1319932800000 vs 1320019200000 in unix epoch milliseconds)

Unfortunately, JavaScript isn't a decent programming language and has really shitty date support, so it does require some effort, but no more than doing the stupid traditional calendar.

But one day I'll get around to doing a super jQuery calendar thing and somehow get everyone to use it and then we can finally stop with the stupid fucking month = page nonsense.
From: william (WILLIAMA)27 Oct 2011 20:06
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 7 of 13
I wrote one in rexx that runs under TSO on an IBM mainframe if that's of any use. It scrolls and displays any year/day or whatever you want it to. Does other bits and bobs like issuing reminders and so on. Do you have an IBM mainframe?
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)27 Oct 2011 20:52
To: william (WILLIAMA) 8 of 13
Who doesn't?
From: william (WILLIAMA)27 Oct 2011 21:14
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 9 of 13
Exactly, but one has to ask.
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)27 Oct 2011 22:46
To: william (WILLIAMA) 10 of 13
Yes, but not one of those new-fangled modern machines running TSO. :(
From: steve28 Oct 2011 03:33
To: Mouse 11 of 13
*swallows*
*brings peace*
From: Mouse28 Oct 2011 07:59
To: steve 12 of 13
:D
From: william (WILLIAMA)28 Oct 2011 08:13
To: steve 13 of 13
Oh God. Stuck with that image all day now.