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Day 5, the sky has broken open and begun to rain upon the vessel. So far we have sent the cabin boy down to pump the bilge.

For some time I have been working on a JavaScript library for working with timezones. The name is tzdata-javascript

To use it, you would first load the library like this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tzdata-javascript.org/tzdata-javascript.js">
</script>

(SoylentNews seems to break the URL for the .js file in a weird place, but I'm sure you can figure out what it should be...)

And then use it like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
    # Load the timezone you want to use:
    var la=new tzdata_javascript.zoneinfo("America/Los_Angeles");
    var cph=new tzdata_javascript.zoneinfo("Europe/Copenhagen");
    var hk=new tzdata_javascript.zoneinfo("Asia/Hong_Kong");

    # Find the timestamp (in ms since Epoch) you want to convert to localtime:
    var now=new Date().valueOf();

    # Call the strftime() function of each of the timezones, you loaded earlier:
    alert(
        "The time in Los Angeles is : "+la.strftime("%+",now)+"\n"+

        "The time in Copenhagen is : "+cph.strftime("%+",now)+"\n"+

        "The time in Hong Kong is : "+hk.strftime("%+",now)+"\n"
    );
</script>

And that's about it... :-)

The librarys website has some more demos and examples.

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Crew managed to trade Spam for rum before we left port;

First mate was shanked for whistling showtunes on deck.

Dear god, both day two and day three have been devoured by sharks.

Need more grog.

Lurking in the IRC channels for SN this week has been a fantastic experience.
Being exposed to experts ( and idiots ) with arcane bits of knowledge, not to mention the bread recipes has certainly added to my knowledge.
The best conclusion I have drawn though is that a skilled and dedicated team can achieve the near impossible, if they don't mind doing without sleep; I'm impressed.

First post, first post, ;)

A - Here is a humble letter A.

B - There is B.

C - This one is a little odd, but nice overall.

D - STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM THIS ONE.

Don't be there, aloha.