Title: Hottaimoijiruna
Author: majelbstoat
Published: <strong>January 3, 2006</strong>
Last modified: January 22, 2006

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# Hottaimoijiruna

 By [majelbstoat](https://profiles.wordpress.org/majelbstoat/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/hottaimoijiruna.zip)

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 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/hottaimoijiruna/#developers)

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## Description

Hottaimoijiruna is a continuously updating AJAX powered clock for your site, with
a customisable timezone so that you can display the time of day in your part of 
the world.

## Installation

 1. Upload hottaimoijiruna.php to your plugins folder, usually `wp-content/plugins/`
 2. Activate the plugin on the plugin screen.
 3. Use the WordPress plugins editor and set “HOURS_FROM_GMT” appropriately for your
    timezone.
 4. In every template that you wish for the clock to appear, call the function hottaimoijiruna().

## FAQ

  Can you alter the format of the returned date string?

Not yet, but you will be able to soon.

  How does it work?

Every minute hottaimoijiruna makes a call to the server and gets the current time.
It uses SACK, an AJAX Kit by [Gregory Wild-Smith](http://www.twilightuniverse.com/),
that comes built in with WordPress 2.0

  It doesn’t work!

Yes it does! See [here](http://jamietalbot.com/about/). Have you activated the plugin?
Are you using WordPress 2.0 or else have SACK installed? Have you called Have you
got Javascript enabled?

  Will it work with WordPress 1.x?

For 1.2.x – no – it needs the templating system in 1.5+ to put javascript into a
post or page. For 1.5+, probably, but it needs the SACK kit that is in 2.0. If you
<a href=http://twilightuniverse.com/resources/code/sack/”>download SACK and put 
it in the wp-includes/js/ directory, it should work.

  Will it break if the user doesn’t have Javascript?

Nope. It should degrade nicely, and just leave the default text (or nothing).

  Will it break if the XML call fails?

Nope. It should degrade nicely, and say “clock disabled”.

  Will this run on every WordPress page and post?

Nope, only on pages where you call hottaimoijiruna(), and it will quit before the
first call if there is a problem.

  Do you have an example?

Have a look at my [About Page](http://jamietalbot.com/about/).

  What’s with the stupid name?

Hottaimoijiruna is Japanese and it roughly means, “Don’t touch the potato that was
dug up”. It is what some Japanese people think you are saying when you say “What
time is is now?” Try saying it fast and you’ll understand.

  So it’s kind of a joke?

Kind of. Did you laugh?

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Hottaimoijiruna” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ majelbstoat ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/majelbstoat/)

[Translate “Hottaimoijiruna” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hottaimoijiruna)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hottaimoijiruna/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/hottaimoijiruna/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hottaimoijiruna/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hottaimoijiruna/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **0.3**
 *  Last updated **20 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hottaimoijiruna/)
 * Tags
 * [ajax](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ajax/)[clock](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/clock/)
   [date](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/date/)[time](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/time/)
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## Contributors

 *   [ majelbstoat ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/majelbstoat/)

## Support

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