Timestamping has entered testing mode!
Perhaps the last big user-end feature for the Mercury System for Version 1.0 is now beginning the testing stage! Timestamping. I was confused, especially after having been in "away" mode for any length of time, when exactly a particular message was sent to me. Whether it was very recent and they are still waiting for a reply or if it had been from the previous night.
Enter timestamping. This adds the time that the message was sent after your username but before your message. You'll recognize such things from just about any IM system. Hence, reason number two why TMS has it. I am trying to include all features of desktop-based IM systems.
The premise is this: the server has its own time. But chances are the server is in a different geographic location from where you are. Especially with a system like this which could potentially have users from all over the world. So we need to alter the time for each individual user so that the timestamps' time is always relative to their time.
First the program has to turn the server's military time into times that we understand (12 midnight, 12 noon..back to 12 midnight and all over again). Then the script takes your offset (number of hours plus or minus that your time is away from the server's time) and then performs the addition or subtraction to determine what time it is where you are.
There is a new link under the Options menu called Timestamping. There are two drop down menus. The first is for plus/minus where you state whether your time is ahead or behind the server's time. The second has the numbers 1 through 12 so that you can tell the program how many hours your time is from the server's time.
And then it was tricky getting the script to understand if it were AM or PM. But as of now it seems to be working perfectly.
I am asking the testers to keep an eye on this to make certain that the hours are always correct as well as the AM/PM.
TMS is basically 100% in the testing stage as far as the user end goes. While that is all being tested I will work on the administrator controls which will of course will also be kept track of in here.
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