Overdrive
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| at a spcified time load this....
Is there a way to load something at a specified time?
like if I click on a page and at 10 am a script loads that pops up a new page? I am not doing pop-up ADs just a pop-up page.
I was thinking about a refresh page that refreshing every minute..or 10 minutes.. but if they get there and the time is 9:55 AM and the stream starts at 10:00 AM can I code it to countdown from the current time to the desired time , then refresh?
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GILXA1226
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| You might be able to do something with java script. Where you might run into trouble is going across time zones... ie 10:00pm EST != 10:00pm PST. Other than that I wouldn't see too much of a problem.
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Overdrive
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| said by GILXA1226  :
You might be able to do something with java script. Where you might run into trouble is going across time zones... ie 10:00pm EST != 10:00pm PST. Other than that I wouldn't see too much of a problem.
using the server date/time would eliminate that..
so lets put it together....
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Overdrive
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ok I have an idea....
I have some Javascript here that will refresh every minute (or if I want every 1 minute 15 seconds.)
code:
<script>
<!--
//enter refresh time in "minutes:seconds" Minutes should range from 0 to inifinity.
//Seconds should range from 0 to 59
var limit="1:00"
if (document.images){
var parselimit=limit.split(":")
parselimit=parselimit[0]*60+parselimit[1]*1
}
function beginrefresh(){
if (!document.images)
return
if (parselimit==1)
window.location.reload()
else{
parselimit-=1
curmin=Math.floor(parselimit/60)
cursec=parselimit%60
if (curmin!=0)
curtime=curmin+" minutes and "+cursec+" seconds left until page refresh!"
else
curtime=cursec+" seconds left until page refresh!"
window.status=curtime
setTimeout("beginrefresh()",1000)
}
}
window.onload=beginrefresh
//-->
</script>
Now:
var limit="1:00"
all I have to do is figure out the Seconds and minutes difference between the Now() time and the start Time.
So we can first by-pass this by seeing if the Now() time is past the start time or past the end time.
once we figure that out then we can figure out the difference between the 2 times Now() and Start time. then make the difference: var limit="minutes:seconds"
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GILXA1226
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in my limited knowledge of JavaScript, I don't know if you can get the server time... hmmm. What you could do is get the UTC time and the convert.
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Overdrive
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this doesn't have to be JavaScript.. it can Be in ASP. I just happen to have a refresh script in JavaScript
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How 'bout a pure ASP solution....
You can use ASP for a possible solution by making use of the ASP-based refresh capability.
Here's what I put together. You can tighten the code up a bit but it should give you a good idea of how to implement:
<%
Option Explicit
'Declare variables
Dim RefreshTime, TargetTime
'Define target time
TargetTime = "7:00 PM"
'Calculate difference between current server time
'and the target time
RefreshTime = DateDiff("n" , time(), TargetTime)
'Correct for time that's already past by adding another full day (in minutes)
If RefreshTime < 0 then RefreshTime = RefreshTime + 1440 '(1440 = 24 hours * 60 minutes)
'Convert refresh interval from minutes to seconds
RefreshTime = RefreshTime * 60
'/Process to "Refresh" the page without META tag
If RefreshTime <> 0 then '<- don't remove this sanity check
Response.Expires = 0
Response.Buffer = True
Response.Clear
Response.AddHeader "Refresh", RefreshTime
Else 'when the page "reloads", set to trigger again 24 hrs from target time
Response.Expires = 0
Response.Buffer = True
Response.Clear
Response.AddHeader "Refresh", 1440
End If
%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>ASP Refresh page</title>
</head>
<body>
Target time is <%=TargetTime%>.
<br>
Current time is <%=time()%>.
<p>
This page will refresh in approximately <%= Round((RefreshTime/60), 1) %> minutes.
</body>
</html>
Hope this works for you.
Regards,
Jim |
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Overdrive
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Waterbury, CT | Worked! I added it to the Javascript so that it would refresh (cause the asp would not refresh..) but once I added it in to the JaveScript it worked out! Thanks.
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