Wikipedia:WikiProject Current Local City Time

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Current Local City Time (CLCT)

Current City Time (CCT)

WikiProject

1 Goals
2 Background
3 Template
4 Suggestions: What to do
- 4.1 Categorize cities in UTC
5 Participants
6 See also - Important resources for this project

[edit] Goals

The aim of the CLCT is to insert the current date and time corresponding to a location. The geographical location should be a city within an already existing wikipedia article. Due to the electronic nature of Wikipedia we are capable of formatting, in the most efficient way possible, the exact time at a given location. Policies and guidelines should work to support this aim.

[edit] Background

This idea originated while reformating my talk page. It was inspired by WP:TIME and User:Patrick. In January 2007, a trial run began with the article Ottawa. Time Zones are diverse throught the entire world, maybe sub-conciously the fact that my friend just left for a trip to England, London may have influenced my iniative towards this project. Now however we need to work together to implement a plan. We must figure out what is the best way to add the current city time to all city articles.

[edit] Template

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[edit] Suggestions: What to do

1 - ~~we need to make a template based on the Ottawa article. (note: it even uses a reference to conform to the article),~~ prototype complete: Some issues still exist regarding programming and references.

~~we need to test it on a couple articles~~ comment: prototype tested on Ottawa article and we may need to return back to the drawing board for logistic planing of step 2 and other improvements.
Provide a list of different templates on these pages: Wikipedia:WikiProject Current Local City Time/Templates and have WP:CCT/Templates redirect to that page.

2 - we need to make a list of articles which we have successfully added the time stamp

perhaps a new temporary category should be included in the template

add a link to that new category from this page.

3 - Check [[Category:Cities by country]] and see if we can't make a program to send a message to every one of those article's talk page. Users would see the message and could add the time themselfs. (This is above my capabilities)

4 - Maybe we can take advantage of the geographical coordinates that appear at the top of some of these articles some how? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:DATE#Time_zones)

[edit] Categorize cities in UTC

Add a categorization to different city templates: ie.: ~~template:Infobox city (already done)~~, Template:Canadian City, Template:US state, etc...

Find more existing city templates and add the UTC code. so the cities are categorized
- ~~Request move of cities, that do not have the name of the province... ie.: Ottawa should be Ottawa, Ontario as per the common denominator suggest from category:UTC-5.~~
  - We will need to work at the templates instead.
- Here is a list of other templates Category:City infobox templates, we need to pick the ones tha deal with cities.

Um, I don't really understand what it is that you're trying to do here, but adding Category:UTC to a widely-used infobox that then adds the redlink category to articles using the infobox doesn't seem a very wise approach. older ≠ wiser 15:18, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Participants

--CyclePat 23:24, 13 January 2007 (UTC) - Hear ay! Hear ay! The first CLCT participant is me! "Let us spread time around the world."
Tra (Talk) 23:56, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Uncle Ed 14:35, 17 January 2007 (UTC) - joining because CyclePat reminded me that I kind of started the ball rolling, with my time-calculation templates. The real credit goes to Tim Starling for creating m:ParserFunctions.
Smcafirst | Chit-Chat | SIGN posted at 01:39, 27 March 2007 (UTC)