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Farrell Keough

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February 11, 2005 at 2:21 pm

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This is really my first time of extensive conversation with others in various countries. I have noticed that certain times of the day have higher counts of people on the site. I would like to judge this based upon the time in my hometown. To that end, could you tell me what time zone is used when someone replies to a query? That way I can try and calculate back and fourth to my timezone.

Thanks.
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PBirch SSCrazy Eights Points: 8493 More actions · Answer 1

Laughing - there are times I am working with my European collegues and their day starts many (many) hours before mine and ends somewhere within 30 minutes of my first cup of coffee at my desk. When I work with Asian countries I have the opposite issue.

By the way, Frank is always on line.....

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Farrell Keough SSCoach Points: 17414 More actions · Answer 2

I had similar issues when I was with a BIG ( and Nasty) credit card company and we had workers in India. We would get about one to one & 1/2 hours of talking time. Everything else would be an email answered the next day...

I have a sister in Australia and when I am getting ready for bed she will be online and ready and raring to talk.... too funny... What a great time and world we live in....

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Frank Kalis SSC Guru Points: 111183 More actions · Answer 3

By the way, Frank is always on line

Only when I'm at work As you know, since three weeks I have other tasks to do at home now.

Anyway, in almost all php-based forum software you have a setting where you can specify your UTC offset or Greenwich meantime, for that matter. Wish this software would have that functionality, too.

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PBirch SSCrazy Eights Points: 8493 More actions · Answer 4

Ah, you're on "Honey Do" detail at home. I understand completely.

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Frank Kalis SSC Guru Points: 111183 More actions · Answer 5

Actually I think it's a bit unfair to expect my wife to take care of the kids all day, even when I'm at home. No, usually I bring the kids to bed, tell the stories (right now are dinosaurs and stories of the great white shark the favorites), and care for them when they wake up in the night. Call it my part of the deal. Before the baby came I could ge online in the evenings, because once the boys sleep they keep on sleeping usually. Right now, I'm trying to convince the baby to do the same.

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Farrell Keough SSCoach Points: 17414 More actions · Answer 6

Alright - a bit more of my ignorance. php-based forum software? What is php?

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PBirch SSCrazy Eights Points: 8493 More actions · Answer 7

Self-referentially short for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, an open source, server-side, HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages.

In an HTML document, PHP script (similar syntax to that of Perl or C ) is enclosed within special PHP tags. Because PHP is embedded within tags, the author can jump between HTML and PHP (similar to ASP and Cold Fusion) instead of having to rely on heavy amounts of code to output HTML. And, because PHP is executed on the server, the client cannot view the PHP code. PHP can perform any task that any CGI program can do, but its strength lies in its compatibility with many types of databases.

Also, PHP can talk across networks using IMAP, SNMP, NNTP, POP3, or HTTP. PHP was created sometime in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf. During mid 1997, PHP development entered the hands of other contributors. Two of them, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, rewrote the parser from scratch to create PHP version 3 (PHP3).

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PBirch SSCrazy Eights Points: 8493 More actions · Answer 8

Frank -

I understand. We are planning another addition to our family and I share the household duties. The wife works (sometimes longer hours than I do). I, too, have the stories - Cinderella and Snow White are big, my favorite Alice was kind of a dud.

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Frank Kalis SSC Guru Points: 111183 More actions · Answer 9

Farrell,

this comparison is a bit skewed, but php is pretty much like asp. Just another script language to bring dynamic content to the web. Take Linux, MySQL, Apache and PHP and you've got *the* classical low-cost webserver.

Patrick,

those fairy tales were never part my elder one's favorites. He's quite mad about dinosaurs and has no problems speaking word like Euoplocephalus, Ankylosaurus, or Velociraptor. Fortunately he doesn't know about Jurassic Park yet. And he shares daddy's interest for Carcharodon carcharias

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Frank Kalis
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
Webmaster: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs
My blog: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs/frankkalis/[/url]