Rikapi said:
But in this day and age of hacked accounts galore (SE finally got off their *** and started an account rewind service! I'm amazed!), I can see some people not utilizing the auto-time-translation because it's JavaScript, then complaining that the GMT timezone is "wrong"... ^^;;
First of all, there are plenty of features that the site already uses javascript to implement already. For example, using message boxes, mousing over items and viewing their stats, un/collapsing certain sections on item/player pages, and scripts are used to display ads, and the ad companies can use dozens more scripts to actually generate the ad that you see. My point is that Javascript is already used a lot. This is NOT a bad thing and is very common in most websites.
The calculation to display the time is very simple and would always work assuming the users's computer knows which timezone they're in. If their computer doesn't have the correct timezone set, then it will be off by a couple of hours at most, which is what the time already displays on the forums and such already.
Edit: For those of you who are wondering, here's a little bit of info. Websites use tons of tiny scripts like this to make their site look nice, to make it display properly, or to generate ads. FFXIAH seems to load ~20-25 scripts on each page depending on the ads. Compare this to a couple other sites that I went to just to get these numbers:
MSN: ~20 scripts
PlayOnline (US Home): ~20 scripts
MySpace: ~30+ scripts (dozens more on member pages)
FFXIclopedia: ~40 scripts
Yahoo: ~60 scripts
Ebay: ~45-65+ scripts
Gmail: ~90 scripts!