After somehow managing to post something useful earlier in the week, I’ve decided to prove that metaphorical lightning can indeed strike twice in the same place by making another useful post. This time, it’s about the eBay Auction Enhancer user script for the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox. This nifty little bit of JavaScript adds a countdown timer to eBay auction pages (as well as an in-place bid placer, although I tend not to use that so much).

Why am I posting about it? Well, it seems that when our clocks went back to GMT (marking the end of British Summer Time) the countdown timer stopped working, replacing the hour of the countdown timer with ?? which renders the script a little bit less useful than before. Thankfully, the fix is simple: open up the script and replace the following line:

zones: {UTC: "", AEST: "+10", AEDT: "+11", CEST: "+2", CEDT: "+2", CET: "+1", EST: "-5",
EDT: "-4", Paris: "+1", IST: "+5:30", BST: "+1", WET: "", "H\\.Esp": "+1"},


with this:

zones: {GMT: "", UTC: "", AEST: "+10", AEDT: "+11", CEST: "+2", CEDT: "+2", CET: "+1", EST: "-5",
EDT: "-4", Paris: "+1", IST: "+5:30", BST: "+1", WET: "", "H\\.Esp": "+1"},


To open the script, right-click the Greasemonkey icon in the Firefox status bar and select Manage User Script… Then, in the window that opens, click eBay Auction Enhancer and click the Edit button. Then make the amendment as above and you’re all set.

Two useful posts in one week? I’m starting to feel a little faint. Better pass the smelling salts, just in case.