I hope this is the right forum for this question. If not, please accept my apologies in advance and give me a hint where I should be asking this.
I deal with customers in differing timezones and would like a block in which I could show the time in 3 or 4 timezones and the server time. This would help with timed submissions. It would also give participants a reminder of the international issues when it comes to chat or conferencing.
It could look something like this:
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Server time: xx:xx
Miami time: xx:xx
London time: xx:xx
Mumbai tine: xx:xx
Tokio time: xx:xx
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Is there such a block or is there something along these lines being planned? Failing that, is there a workaround (maybe using the html block)?
Any pointers would be gratefully accepted!
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer in this respect.
Olaf
Hi there. I don't know of a plugin that would do this but I am sure there must be plenty of bits of code around for world clocks that you could put into an html block to do what you want.This one was the first I googled ( can't guarantee it as I haven't tried it)
Hi Olaf,
I'd try Google Gadgets. They offer a quick, easy, simple way to add things like this to websites by using wizards and copying and pasting code. I searched for clocks and there are a few:
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open&q=clock
I'd also recommend making a custom side block rather than using the HTML side block for one simple reason - it's much quicker to add and remove the block on a Moodle site, i.e. you don't have to copy and paste code into every HTML block on every course, and is much easier to make changes and update the block, i.e. you change the clock code once, in one place and it affects all the clocks on all your courses.
There's a quick tutorial here on how to create your first block:
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Blocks
I hope this helps!
I'd try Google Gadgets. They offer a quick, easy, simple way to add things like this to websites by using wizards and copying and pasting code. I searched for clocks and there are a few:
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open&q=clock
I'd also recommend making a custom side block rather than using the HTML side block for one simple reason - it's much quicker to add and remove the block on a Moodle site, i.e. you don't have to copy and paste code into every HTML block on every course, and is much easier to make changes and update the block, i.e. you change the clock code once, in one place and it affects all the clocks on all your courses.
There's a quick tutorial here on how to create your first block:
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Blocks
I hope this helps!