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Automatic page refresh at specific time of day? 1

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Shrap

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Hi guys,

Basically, cutting a long story short. I'm in need of a script which refreshes a web page at a certain time of day (in my case, 1pm) instead of a generic refresh after a pre-defined number of minutes.

Is this possibly to do? If so, how? Any advice would be great.

Thanks all.
 
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Not sure why you'd want to do this, but this should work:
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">[/URL]
<html xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">[/URL]
<head>
<title>title test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<script type="text/javascript">

//60000 milliseconds is 1 minute
window.setInterval("checkForRefresh()", 60000);

function checkForRefresh() {
   var now = new Date();
   if (now.getHours() == 13 && now.getMinutes() == 0) {
      window.refresh();
   }
}



</script>
<style type="text/css"></style>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

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What time zone do you want to use for the standard? Your best bet to make sure everyone viewing the page does it at the same time is to write the server time in the Javascript with server-side scripting, then calculate the offset from the time on the client-side computer and work from there. Otherwise you're at the mercy of the time on the client computer, which will vary depending on time zone and other things.

Lee
 
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Hi guys,

All I want to do is make the page auto refresh at 1pm. It's only going to be used internally, on a select few of computers.

Code: 
<script type="text/javascript">

//60000 milliseconds is 1 minute
window.setInterval("checkForRefresh()", 60000);

function checkForRefresh() {
   var now = new Date();
   if (now.getHours() == 13 && now.getMinutes() == 0) {
      window.refresh();
   }
}



</script>

So that should be all I need?

Thanks.
 
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I forgot to mention that the time zone would be GMT, as I live in the UK.
 
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