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Perfect has fallen out of favor. Mike West has gone beyond and I’m bailing as well. I previously ran an article¹ showing how to display timestamps in the user’s timezone with a pinkyfingerful of Javascript. He’s retired my .. nonsense in favor of:

 3/21/2005 1:03 CST

And then there’s a half-pint of Javascript in his PerfectTime.js which swaps in the correct time, if the browser is ALL SYSTEMS GO. For a complete examination of his time-wielding skills, see the total exposition.

¹ Showing Perfect Time. I’ve updated the article to reflect the new ideas.