Safari
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Only ten? Even I’ve seen it more, and it’s not even a favourite!
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This might be a timezone thing.
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You are probably right. Might be double that. It is hard to know what you saw and did not see before TG.
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Do you think it would be possible to have the complete feature keep the log in another time zone besides GMT? Like many people, I enjoy a good amount of my entertainment in the evening, but if I complete a story after 6 or 7 PM, it will show the wrong date (as it is the next day in Britain then).
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I have just researched the dates for every issues of Classic Comics to work out when I read lots of the old comic strips.
I’ve been doing it for nearly 2 hours.
What madness have I succumbed to!!
Thank god, I can’t work out when I read all the Target novelisations or anything audio-wise past Zagreus (which is probably when I started to fall behind).
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Yes, I’m looking into how to handle timezones, and will try to update it for that!
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I’ve just thought of some problems with using different time zones though which I need to work out first. I hate timezone differences, it’s such a pain.
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It might be but doesn’t resolve the other issue I had with it occasionally not saving.
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I’ve found out the reason for @ImpossibleGirl ’s issue and yes it is a time zone thing.
Something I forgot to factor in is that for people in different time zones, episodes may have aired a day before they did in the UK. I set it to be impossible to save a date before it aired.
I need to do some work to make times show correctly and save correctly for people in different time zones. I’ll work on that when I can!
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Any problems in particular that you are willing to disclose? Perhaps we could help! 
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Ok I will post the issue with time zones that I have!
The site is all set up at the moment for UK time zone. All releases are saved as UK dates and when you complete something it saves the current time as the time in the UK.
I could add a feature so you can select your time zone (in fact that already exists on the forum) and then change all dates to output in your time zone.
So for example Space Babies was released at midnight on the 11 May in the UK but in the USA that is sometime on the 10th May.
So far, no problem.
The problem comes where I haven’t had exact times for releases of other stories (TV episodes, Big Finish releases, etc) so I’ve inputted them all as releasing on midnight. This is fine as it just means “sometime on that day” but if you translate it to a different time zone it could very easily show the wrong day because -1 hour is a whole different day, where if it was aired at 6pm UK time then -1 hour shouldn’t change the day.
So that’s a bit of an inaccuracy when displaying dates and if someone says the saw something “on release”. Not that big a deal, because someone in the USA isn’t likely to have seen The Christmas Invasion on release day as it probably wasn’t simulcast. And Space Babies was simulcast so that is fine.
The bigger problem is when someone wants to manually say that they saw something on a certain date. Let’s say your time zone is -6 UTC. You set Space Babies manually to May 10. We don’t bother asking for the exact time that you saw it (too fiddly) so what do I save in the database?
If I save it as ‘2024-05-10 00:00’ then when it outputs this to you, it’s going to try and change it to your time zone by removing 6 hours so it will actually show 9th May!
So I guess if your time zone is -6 then when you choose 10 May I need to actually add 6 hours and save it as ‘2024-05-10 06:00’ so when it shows it back to you it’s still correct?
But then when someone from the UK views their profile it looks like they saw it a whole day in advance but actually they saw it on the 11th May from our perspective.
I’m probably just getting this all wrong but time zones are my kryptonite so any help figuring this out is appreciated!!
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Well, that sounds like a proper pain in the butt! I see the problem of the situation! I hope someone clever can help you, I’m certainly not qualified 
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I think the best solution (and what other sites do) is to ask for time as well. People can ignore it if they want but then it won’t be as accurate 
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The obvious solution is the entire world conforms to GMT. Simples.
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I dont know if it is possible but could you remove time completely and only do dates? And maybe have one date as the air date but allow people to log it one day before the official air date?
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Here the conquering and imperialist Brit comes again! /j
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I’m considering allowing people to post a day early which fixes the issue but will look odd.
If I remove time then I can’t show realtime updates like your Following Feed or recent activity on the profile, I like showing that as it feels like a bit of a social network.
I guess I could still have them but not show exact times. It’s not that important.
But your idea is a good one. I’ll think about it.
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Which should I do?
- Remove times
- Ask for times when changing dates
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I like times! Times are cool! This franchise is all about time! So I supoort time! I vote for time!
FREE TIME! FREE TIME! FREE TIME!
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