New Flash Lite Download on MD Labs
The World Time and Temperature application is now available for download. It’s designed to work with any mobile device that has a screen size of 240w x 320h. Enjoy!
GetTimeZoneOffset Bug
While testing my time and temperature application, I’ve discovered a bug related to time zone offset. The left half of the image above is a screen shot from Device Central and it’s showing the correct offset value in minutes (offset is the difference between local time and Greenwich Mean Time or GMT).
The screen shot at right was taken from my Nokia N73 using the same Flash Lite test file. The problem is that my N73 shows the offset as -60. This also throws off the rest of my display times because their calculation is based on the offset value.
I could ignore what I see in Device Central and multiply the offset value by -1 in code to reverse the negative and positive offset values. But I wonder if this will work for all devices? If you have any experience with this problem, please feel free to send an email to liz–at–myersdesign–dot–com.
Thank you.
New Flash Lite 1.1 Application
This was an interesting weekend for time and temperature in London. We had rain, sleet, driving hail, blustery wind, and light snow - all on the same day! Perhaps Mother Nature knew I would be in testing mode, as all the changes sent a larger spectrum of temperature and conditions data.
The weather data comes from an RSS feed courtesy of Yahoo! Weather. Although you can access a set of weather icons from within the feed itself, I wanted to create my own. Making 50 icons takes time, so I completed the basic setup shown above and will further develop the application when I get back from holiday. (I’ll be in Florida for a week - making sure the sunny, partly cloudy, and clear icons are working properly 
