Timezone Clock

Timezone Clock is a website setup for dual timezone clock with weather informations compatible with legacy browsers.

Screenshots

Features:

• Compatible with legacy browsers;
• Scaled UI with browser window's size;
• Flexible JSON request proxy for centralised request to API source;
• Can be used with a free subscription of OpenWeatherMap;

Setup

The website can be hosted on a PHP server (detects .html and .php as PHP files) or used on client side (no setup required), it is compatible and will auto detect how it is used. However, there is no rate limit on client side, request limit imposed by OpenWeatherMap may be exceeded and causes error, but as long as you limit the times you refresh or change location, client side will be fine.

Setup instructions for hosting

Use setup.sh to setup. For Bash, Apache and SQLite3 on Linux.

Modification will be needed for other shells, server hosting programs or operating systems.

Create scripts/php.ini file with OPENWEATHERMAP_APPID=[your id here] in it.
Server should be pointing to the parent directory and index.html, php.ini file must have restricted access. Remove the following files before starting a public server:

• .git
• .gitignore
• README.md
• screenshot.png
• screenshot-menu.png
• setup.sh

Setup script summary

For for other shells, server hosting programs or operating systems, here is a summary of the setup script, variables are in square brackets:

1. Remove scripts/apijson.sqlite3
2. Create SQLite3 database scripts/apijson.sqlite3 with table named Response, with columns Location TEXT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL, Json TEXT NOT NULL and RequestTime INTEGER NOT NULL
3. Change all files' permission to 664 (-rw-rw-r--), directories' permission to 775 (drwxrwxr-x) (See Wikipedia for notation explanation)
4. Change permission of setup.sh to 775 (-rwxrwxr-x) for future execution
5. Detect the user group of web server (For Apache on Linux, it is http by default and found after Group keyword in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf)
6. Change owner to [self username]:[web server group] for all items in the repository directory and parent directories up to the one before root (For example, wylie in default Linux Apache environment with repository of path /home/repos/timezone-clock; repos, timezone-clock and everything in timezone-clock will have the owner of wylie:http)
7. Change the permission of the repository directory and parent directories up to the one before root to 775 (drwxrwxr-x)