Comments on: Home time is a little closer http://sickbiscuit.com/blog/2008/09/09/home-time-is-a-little-closer/ The personal blog of Steven Wilkin Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:44:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: steve http://sickbiscuit.com/blog/2008/09/09/home-time-is-a-little-closer/comment-page-1/#comment-10472 steve Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:25:04 +0000 http://sickbiscuit.com/blog/?p=287#comment-10472 Cheers for stopping by Skry! Did you try clicking on the link beside "Offset from GMT" ? Cheers for stopping by Skry!

Did you try clicking on the link beside “Offset from GMT” ?

]]> By: Skry http://sickbiscuit.com/blog/2008/09/09/home-time-is-a-little-closer/comment-page-1/#comment-10469 Skry Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:45:40 +0000 http://sickbiscuit.com/blog/?p=287#comment-10469 I tried it 8:43am local New Zealand time and got the message "It's after 12am - time you weren't here". Maybe you need to configure world time zones, or maybe it's not worth it. not sure which. Best of luck with it though - I know how hard it is to work on stuff at home after working all day on the same things as part of your job! There's only so much development you can do before the code starts looking hazy and boring... I tried it 8:43am local New Zealand time and got the message “It’s after 12am – time you weren’t here”. Maybe you need to configure world time zones, or maybe it’s not worth it. not sure which.

Best of luck with it though – I know how hard it is to work on stuff at home after working all day on the same things as part of your job! There’s only so much development you can do before the code starts looking hazy and boring…

]]> By: steve http://sickbiscuit.com/blog/2008/09/09/home-time-is-a-little-closer/comment-page-1/#comment-10341 steve Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:52:13 +0000 http://sickbiscuit.com/blog/?p=287#comment-10341 When I was doing ops support @ $BIG_CORP most of my day was spent waiting for the pain to end, hence the original inspiration for this ;) I found it interesting to see how quickly I could bring an idea from an empty repository to production release and it's also a useful showcase of my AJAX skills :) I guess some days it's better not knowing how much longer is left... When I was doing ops support @ $BIG_CORP most of my day was spent waiting for the pain to end, hence the original inspiration for this ;)

I found it interesting to see how quickly I could bring an idea from an empty repository to production release and it’s also a useful showcase of my AJAX skills :)

I guess some days it’s better not knowing how much longer is left…

]]> By: Peter Adams http://sickbiscuit.com/blog/2008/09/09/home-time-is-a-little-closer/comment-page-1/#comment-10339 Peter Adams Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:38:32 +0000 http://sickbiscuit.com/blog/?p=287#comment-10339 Oh dear lord. If clock-watching at work wasn't already torturous enough... I guess it's nice as a little test-bed app but if you are planning to seriously use this you'd have to be some sort of sado-masochist. You know that on the very bad days you will swear you see it going backwards. Oh dear lord. If clock-watching at work wasn’t already torturous enough… I guess it’s nice as a little test-bed app but if you are planning to seriously use this you’d have to be some sort of sado-masochist.

You know that on the very bad days you will swear you see it going backwards.

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