Month: June 2010

General: Time and programming

UTC: Universal time based on England.

GMT: Greenwich Mean Time. Sort of the same as UTC, based on a different region of the world.

Unix time: Number of seconds since epoch (1970). It is based on UTC. No timezones, there are leap seconds every now and then to adjust. They happen at the end of the day by just recounting the last second.

Computer systems should store Unix timestamps based on UTC.

Clients of those systems should do the adjustments to display them as local time to the users. At displaying time, a timeformat without offset is useless.

 

 

 

Cross domain communications with iframes

The following links are the answer:

http://softwareas.com/cross-domain-communication-with-iframes

http://shouldersofgiants.co.uk/Blog/post/2009/08/17/Another-Cross-Domain-iFrame-Communication-Technique.aspx

Basically, from the main window, we are polling the iframe url for changes in the hash part (url#your-messaging-here), and act upon it, the actions on the iframe result in the change of the href.