Is there a way to test the banner that will show for earth hour?

It's enabled by a block and blocks can be restricted to particular roles, so you can certainly do this.

Setting it up so that the view is exposed only to a particular role would do it also (and could be done by adding in user_access('view earth hour'); into the earth_hour_block() function). However that would make it harder to set up. Best to just use the blocks to do this I think.

Might also be useful to set up a test mode to display what the site will look like when it is disabled. Maybe a link in a configure page that would display a page that is what the users will see.

Could see about changing this next year, however earth hour is starting in a few hours in some parts of the world, so don't want to be rushing to put out a new release.

I do like the idea however and there will be other events where a countdown like this is useful to raise awareness that this could be applied to.

Maybe we could put in a 30 second test button for the current user.

I haven't looked at this code in a while, but I took out any hard coded dates in it. It should all be auto-generated. There shouldn't be a need to upgrade the module ever year, unless we add a new graphic or find a security problem with it.

With the upgrade to D7, I'm hoping to add a function to allow folks to more easily test this as I outlined above. Give folks more confidence in what it will look like in Earth Hour.

There is probably a more elegant way to do it, but I wrote (or possibly borrowed) this function:

/* 
 * get day for earth hour for each year
 */
function earth_hour_find_date() {
  $year = date('Y');
  $last_day_of_march = date('D', strtotime(date("$year-3-31"))); 
  $days_array = array('Mon' => -2, 'Tue' => -3, 'Wed' => -4, 'Thu' => -5, 'Fri' => -6, 'Sat' => 0, 'Sun' => -1);
  $last_sat_of_march = (31 + $days_array[$last_day_of_march]);
  $earth_hour_start_time  = gmmktime(20, 30, 0, 3, $last_sat_of_march, $year);
  return $earth_hour_start_time;
}

I don't think this was from the WordPress plugin, but not 100% sure.

Absolutely, I could use some help testing.

I think I have it fixed for D7 actually, although that needs more testing too.

Which version are you interested in testing with? I have to back port the changes to D6 but definitely need to do that and reach out to get folks to upgrade too. I discovered an annoying bug with last year's code.

I'm very frustrated trying to put out both a D6 & D7 version of this project.

I have a D6 version, but can't seem to force out a release. Send me an email and I'll send you a tarball to test.

I've now put out a new d6/d7 version with the new git repository.

Worth checking out the versions for the testing functions.