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New current world times for different Russian and world cities...
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Posted by: Khashyar

Hello Everyone,

I thought it would be useful for us to be able to check the current world times in the forums, perhaps when we wanted to call someone in Russia or a different country, so I just added a "current world times" display for different cities in Russia as well as around the world which will display the current time for that particular city.

The Russian cities (including Minsk and Kiev) are highlighted in a different color so that we can find them more easily.

To check the different times, just click on the map image at the bottom of the forum front page.

Please let me know if you think that it would be better to also include some other important cities of the former Soviet Union...

Khashyar

Posted by: Jutman

Its a nice feature you put at the front.

However I am a little disapointed. We are minimum 2 danes here and Copenhagen is not at the list. Instead is there Amsterdam and Zurich and I have failed to notice any from these countries.

Posted by: jpierce55

Here is a link to a tool some might find helpful in deciding time zones.
http://members.virtualtourist.com/vt/tt/1/

Posted by: Khashyar

Thanks for the feedback, Brian and jpierce...

I just added Copenhagen, Stockholm and Paris... So hopefully our Danish members will feel more at home

I think that most people will want the world time feature to look up times in different ex-Soviet countries, but it also makes sense to add other countries of significance there as well.

Khashyar

Posted by: tonton

Nice feature. But the time for Sydney, Melbourne is 2 hours too fast!
Sorry!

Posted by: Khashyar

Hi tonton...

Thanks for the information....

I moved Sydney and Mebourne into the +10 GMT timezone...

Shouldn't it be the same time in Sydney as in Vladivostok?

Or, do they handle daylight savings time differently?

Khashyar

Posted by: tonton

Hi Khashyar,

Vladivostok is an hour ahead of east coast Australia, and our daylight saving time is over as we are heading into winter.

This is the site I use for all time zones.
http://www.timeanddate.com/

Cheers
Tony

Posted by: Khashyar

Thanks, Tony.

It seems that even though Vladivostok and Sydney are noth listed as +10 GMT, they must have daylight savings time at different times.

I will have to figure out how to adjust the times...

Khashyar

Posted by: AkMike

That is a cool feature! Thanks for the effort Khasyar!

Posted by: Khashyar

Thanks, Mike...

I believe that the way that the particular software that presents the time zones is written, it calculates the times in each timezone by adding the GMT hour difference to that time zone from where the website server is located (in the U.S.).

So, there might be a couple of weeks in the year where the times in different countries might be one hour off because daylight savings time is different in Australia, for example, than in the United States or Vladivistok.

The only way to change this is to create a script that gets the time from the time servers in each country, and I would have to figure out how to do that...

If anyone has suggestions as to how to do this, then please let me know

But, this timezone chart will be almost always accurate.

I'll still do some research.

Khashyar

Posted by: Khashyar

Hi again....

I found out how to pull times from atomic time servers in different countries....

I am going to have to write a script and create a page that will show the correct time in those countries to the second...

It might take me a while to do that... but the current timezone page is almost always accurate (although some cities may be one hour off when they observe a daylight savings time that is different than in American).

Khashyar

Posted by: Khashyar

Hi Everyone,

I spent today writing a program that retrieves the time from an atomic clock in Russia, and then gives the accurate times all throughout the former Soviet Union....

I am still probably going to make some changes in some of the pages style, but....

You can look at it here:

http://www.russianmeetingplace.com/...ussian_time.php

Khashyar

Posted by: Khashyar

By the way, I set up the page so that it automatically refreshes itself every 30 seconds so that you get the current time every 20 seconds.

This means that you can just keep the page open, go back to it, and then you can check the current time....

Khashyar

Posted by: Jill

Re: http://www.russianmeetingplace.com/...ussian_time.php

Well, one immediate change: at the top it says "Current Times in Russian Cities." However, Minsk, Kiev, Yerevan, Baku, Tashkent, and Almaty are not in Russia

So "FSU" or "Eurasia" or something more general would probably be better.

Posted by: Khashyar

Yes, Jill... Point taken

I just changed the title.

How is it now?

Khashyar

Posted by: Jill

There you go, Khashyar

Posted by: Khashyar

Let me know if you have any other suggestions for the FSU times page.....

For example, additional cities to add, different colors, etc...

Khashyar