Weird output from liveclock plugin

[Nscalerr]

Forum URL: townsquarearkies.proboards.com/


For some odd reason this is all I am getting for the display if I have Timezone Force set to none, (which btw won't stay set, if goes back to -12). aN:aN:aN, NaNth

Also odd is that I have it set up exactly the same way on my other forum and it works fine.

[Nscalerr]

Now showing the same output in both forums.

railvillage.proboards.com/

townsquarearkies.proboards.com/

[Craig]

Hey. It is showing ok for me right now, and i don't seem to be having the issue with the time zone saving. What do you have the other options set to, and as normal, does it appear and behave the same in a different browser?

[Chris]

What exactly is a liveclock and where specifically on the forum is it located so it can be observed?

[Nscalerr]

On both forums I have this set and I have tested with Firefox 47.0.2 and Chrome 49.0.2623.112. It used to work on my older forum with these browsers. Incognito window on both browsers makes no difference.

Timezone Force - none, but won't stay set

User selectable 24 hour format - No

Force 24 Hour Format - Yes

Show Date? - After Time

Time and Date on Separate Lines? - No

Omit Seconds - Yes

show full day word - yes

show full month word - yes

suffixes after date - yes

space between time and am/pm - yes

Omissions from Dates - all set to no


Chris

This is the liveclock plugin. - www.proboards.com/library/plugins/item/100

It is located in the title bar of the Forum Information & Statistics

[Chris]

My initial look at the forum shows there is a problem with the "forceoffset" setting since in this case it is returning an empty array which the code is then (erroneously?) evaluating as a truthy value and using it in a calculation on the date object resulting of course in a NaN (not a number) error.

I am not familiar with this plugin nor have it installed to see but is this force offset option really a multi-select option (capable of returning multiple selections in an array) or is it something more like a radio button or mutually exclusive checkbox capable of one and only one answer? Is the plugin editable and was it perhaps mistakenly made into a multiselect option?

[Nscalerr]

The timezone force is a dropdown list and the plugin is not open source.

[Chris]

I installed the plugin to take a look and it is indeed a single select UI option which means when none is selected it should not be returning an empty array but rather an empty string (or null) as it has done in the past. This is not really a fault in the plugin because it appears the behavior has changed on Proboards' end...

var forceOffset=proboards.plugin.get('wormocodes_live_clock').settings.timezone_force; //forceoffset = [] even though it is a single select control


/* code then tests codeoffset to see if a value was returned before using it in a calculation
the problem here of course is that an empty array is still an object so evaluates as true, gets used in the calculation and causes a NaN */            
if (forceOffset) nt.setHours(nt.getHours()+ chk + parseInt(forceOffset) );
            var datehold=nt.toDateString().split(' ');

This could be a related to an attempted fix for this bug which affected the other spectrum where multi-select was behaving like a single-select. Here we have a single-select behaving like a multi-select.

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