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POHow to refresh page on specific day at specific time in specific time zone?
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copied!<p>I am developing a website that has two back to back web broadcasts. I have used PHP to display the time that the buttons should be enabled and disabled. Now I need to use Javascript to automatically refresh the page before the first broadcast, before the second broadcast and after the second broadcast. I implemented the following script and it does refresh the page at the given time, however, it doesn't work exactly as I need it to. I need to alter the script so that it refreshes the page on Sundays at 7:45pm, 8pm and 8:30pm EST only.</p> <p>I'm using a modified script <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1217929/how-to-automatically-reload-a-web-page-at-a-certain-time">from this answered question</a></p> <pre><code>function refreshAt(hours, minutes, seconds) { var now = new Date(); var then = new Date(); if(now.getUTCHours() > hours || (now.getUTCHours() == hours && now.getUTCMinutes() > minutes) || now.getUTCHours() == hours && now.getUTCMinutes() == minutes && now.getUTCSeconds() >= seconds) { then.setUTCDate(now.getUTCDate() + 1); } then.setUTCHours(hours); then.setUTCMinutes(minutes); then.setUTCSeconds(seconds); var timeout = (then.getTime() - now.getTime()); setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(true); }, timeout); } </code></pre> <p>Then I call the refreshAt() function.</p> <pre><code>refreshAt(19,45,0); //Will refresh the page at 7:45pm refreshAt(20,00,0); //Will refresh the page at 8:00pm refreshAt(20,30,0); //Will refresh the page at 8:30pm </code></pre> <p>Where I get confused is how to alter this script to only implement the refresh for EST on Sundays.</p>

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