User:Davidgothberg/clock/doc

This is the DavidClock user script.

It puts an UTC clock in the upper right corner of all pages, like this:

...    my talk    my preferences    my watchlist    my contributions    log out    10:25    10:22

It can show one or both of these two clocks:

• A ticking clock in UTC time. Same time as the Wikipedia servers use.
• A static clock that shows when the page was loaded.

As a bonus the clocks are links to purge the page and to edit section 0.

Note that this clock runs of your local computer clock. If you have wrong time in your computer then this clock will also be wrong.

Usage

To use this script put this code in your User:Yourname/monobook.js page:

importScript( "User:Davidgothberg/clock.js" );

Then you need to wait a minute and then bypass your browser cache to load the clock the first time.

The default is to show both the ticking and the static clock, and that the clock ticks once a minute. This can be changed by adding one of the lines below to your "/monobook.js" page.

window.davidClock = -60;  //Only ticking clock, every minute.
window.davidClock = -5;   //Only ticking clock, every 5 seconds.
window.davidClock = 0;    //Only static clock
window.davidClock = 5;    //Static + ticking clock, every 5 seconds.
window.davidClock = 60;   //Static + ticking clock, every minute.
window.davidClock = 120;  //Static + ticking clock, every 2 minutes.

Don't set below 60 seconds on slow computers.

Technical details

Tested and works in Firefox 2.0, Opera 9.02 and Internet Explorer 5.5.

Works in the following Wikipedia skins: MonoBook, Chick, Modern, MySkin, Simple. Has no effect in the other skins.

Only thing that runs on each tick is the small inner function updateTimeMinutes() or updateTimeSeconds(), thus very efficient.

Based on code from AzaToth, Ilmari Karonen and Voice of All. This script was created by and is maintained by: David Göthberg

See also

• User:Davidgothberg/newmessageshistory.js – Another nifty user script made by David.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts – Lots of other user scripts.