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The Layonara Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: LoganGrimnar on August 07, 2005, 05:44:00 PM

Title: time zones
Post by: LoganGrimnar on August 07, 2005, 05:44:00 PM: okay... est is east cost time... but what dose the EST stand for, im thinking EaSterin Time.. which makes sence i guess. But then what dose PST stand for, i often call it PCT, Pacfic Cost Time. But then what dose the S in PST stand for? there is no S in pacfic for it to fit, im just so confused.Oh and what is GMT, i thought it was like... GM time, like where L lives maby... but im not shure about that, GMT is like london and such area is it not? anyway.. yea.. pst... hum
Title: RE: time zones
Post by: Filatus on August 07, 2005, 05:46:00 PM: "s" stands for summer. Summer time
Title: RE: time zones
Post by: twidget658 on August 07, 2005, 05:52:00 PM: EST - Eastern Standard Time
PST - Pacific Standard Time
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
Title: RE: time zones
Post by: Filatus on August 07, 2005, 06:21:00 PM: Oh, but BST is British Summer time, right?
Title: RE: time zones
Post by: Germaine Lorn on August 07, 2005, 06:23:00 PM: This site has all the timezones fairly easy to use.

http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/

Hope is ok to post this - if not delete or ask me to and I will.
Title: RE: time zones
Post by: teefal on August 07, 2005, 08:44:00 PM: xDT = x Daylight Time (summer time, with daylight savings time)

xST = x Standard Time (without daylight savings time)
Title: RE: time zones
Post by: PsychicToaster on August 07, 2005, 10:15:00 PM: nevermind
Title: RE: time zones
Post by: Germaine Lorn on August 07, 2005, 10:21:00 PM: I'll send them an email - *shakes head*, can't get the staff these days.....thanks for the tip
Title: RE: time zones
Post by: PsychicToaster on August 07, 2005, 10:35:00 PM: Nevermind I spoke too soon. This site (and two others I've found so far) are off by 1 hour on the GMT. It needs to be rolled back one hour. (Right now it shows GMT as 6:36AM and its 5:36AM)

There is a cultural misunderstanding in this area though, about which season is daylight savings time.
Title: RE: time zones
Post by: Germaine Lorn on August 08, 2005, 01:10:00 AM: LOL - too late I sent it and they laughed at me for being stupid....

Germaine Lorn
Title: RE: time zones
Post by: IceDragonDuvessa on August 08, 2005, 07:05:00 AM: There are actually quite a few threads on the times at the top of this page. The staff is aware that it is now PDT (Pacific Daylight) not PST (Pacific Standard) and we are also aware that the GMT we are displaying is actually British Summer time. There are however only a few that have the capability of changing this...

also:

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Germaine Lorn - 8/8/2005 1:21 AM

I'll send them an email - *shakes head*, can't get the staff these days.....thanks for the tip

what are you trying to get ahold of the staff for here?
Title: RE: time zones
Post by: Chrys Ellis on August 22, 2005, 11:38:00 PM: I suggest you switch from GMT to BST, if you're going to follow the Summer Daylight Savings rule. As this website illustrates, http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/, GMT doesn't switch, but there is BST, which is GMT+1. It's very confusing when quest times are posted only by GMT times, because I don't know if the GM is actually using GMT, or is going by BST, but calling it GMT. For now, I'll assume the time they are going by is the same as the GMT time you have listed here.
Title: RE: time zones
Post by: Frendh on August 23, 2005, 04:12:00 PM: Quote
Chrys Ellis - 8/23/2005 8:38 AM I suggest you switch from GMT to BST, if you're going to follow the Summer Daylight Savings rule. As this website illustrates, http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/, GMT doesn't switch, but there is BST, which is GMT+1. It's very confusing when quest times are posted only by GMT times, because I don't know if the GM is actually using GMT, or is going by BST, but calling it GMT. For now, I'll assume the time they are going by is the same as the GMT time you have listed here.

the layo clock shows BST under GMT
Title: RE: time zones
Post by: lonnarin on August 23, 2005, 04:47:00 PM: Down with time zones, Stardate today!

Time should follow the scale of progressively going forward, not occasionally falling back and springing ahead. I shake my hourglass in defiance in the face of Ben Franklin's candle-saving conspiracy; tis not an issue of light and dark, but entirely one of matter displacement!

*takes a doubleshot of Ovaltine*
Title: RE: time zones
Post by: Diamondedge on August 23, 2005, 05:07:00 PM: I must concur with Lonnarin. We need one singular clock. There is no reason that a person should be able to celebrate new years 24 times, if he goes fast enough, just because of where the earth is in it's revolution/rotation.

How self-centered we, the people of Earth are, for basing a standard of measuring time universally around the way our world coincidentally rotates and travels.

I think it is time for us to create LST. Layonara Standard Time. And it wouldn't be that hard to do, if we had a list of things... And a converter for it... We could pull it off. GMT +/- = LST.
Title: RE: time zones
Post by: LoganGrimnar on August 23, 2005, 05:34:00 PM: you 2 are strange...
Title: IceDragonDuvessa
Post by: Germaine Lorn on August 25, 2005, 08:55:00 AM: Just spotted a question directed at me sort of ; RE this:

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- Brisbane Ashaley - Mibbibiddle - Naiather Elliadre - DM-Amaris

what are you trying to get ahold of the staff for here?

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A bit of confusion here. I sent an email to the timezone website, not the Layonara staff. So it was them who laughed at me, and rightly so. Hope this clarifies the mix-up.

Germaine Lorn