Question

I have the Calendar, Spreadsheet, and Local City Time Plugin installed on my twiki here at work. All are working except the Local City Time Plugin. When I type %LOCALCITYTIME% I get the "Help" text that goes along with that variable, however when I try the example %LOCALCITYTIME{"Europe/Zurich"}% ( Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:01:38 +0100 CET (Europe/Zurich) ) and my own time zone in New York, Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:01:38 -0500 EST (America/New_York), they do not render like they render on this page. I have installed the plugin at the twiki root. Is there something else that I should do that might be missing in the documnetation? Please tell me how to go about fixing this problem. Thank You for your help.

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-- JessicaOrtiz - 05 Oct 2001

I have the same problem with the LocalCityTimePlugin, both at my installation and at http://twiki.org as demonstrated in the topic TestLocalCityTime. The error message is error: Can't read http://www.bsdi.com/date?Europe/Berlin (due to a proxy problem?), or received data has invalid format (due to change in web page layout?). Apparently, the data format has changed (with a refresh from http://www.bsdi.com/date?Europe/Berlin to http://www.bsdi.com/xdate?Europe/Berlin). Since the refresh is also triggered when using wget on the command line, it is most certainly not a browser issue (i.e., not dependent on the browser identification). I do not have a proxy.

-- NilsBluemer - 10 Sep 2003

Answer

(Above text moved from DocumentationIssues)

Could you post the exact error message you get? Also, enable the debug flag and look at the output in the twiki/data/debug.txt file.

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Oct 2001

The plugin is not aware of proxy server. You get a "connect: No route to host" error in case your site requires a proxy (this is the case now at SourceForge).

-- PeterThoeny - 05 Dec 2001

The URL of the time script changed from http://www.bsdi.com/date to http://www.bsdi.com/xdate. In the Plugin topic and in the lib/TWiki/Plugins/LocalCityTimePlugin.pm library you need to change all occurances of /date to /xdate.

-- PeterThoeny - 11 Sep 2003