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The Layonara Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Hellblazer on March 09, 2008, 04:48:12 AM

Title: time change
Post by: Hellblazer on March 09, 2008, 04:48:12 AM

Just noticed that the forums have not been set forward an hour yet.

Title: Re: time change
Post by: darkstorme on March 09, 2008, 04:59:08 AM

Two things:

The time clock in the corner is dependent on your time settings, not those of the forums.

Second - a good chunk of the forum-goers are European - where the time hasn't changed yet.

(They won't change until the 20th, this year.  Confusing? :) )

Title: Re: time change
Post by: DMOE on March 09, 2008, 05:26:25 AM

Plus, when Europe does change.....For GMT forum clock won't because....GMT never changes ;)

Title: Re: time change
Post by: Hellblazer on March 09, 2008, 06:02:38 AM

hum my stettings are supose to keep track of that...

Title: Re: time change
Post by: Gulnyr on March 09, 2008, 02:14:18 PM

Quote from: darkstorme

The time clock in the corner is dependent on your time settings, not those of the forums.

Can you be more specific, please?  Which time settings specifically are used?

I'm seeing exactly what Hellblazer is reporting; my computer clock says 2pm, but the forum says 1pm.  Technically, it is 1pm EST, but we're on Daylight Savings Time now, so it should show 2pm EDT.  So technically right but unnecessarily confusing.  I went through the forum options and tried each of the DST setting choices (auto, always on, always off) and none of them made a difference; the forum clock in the corner always read the same time.  I don't know what I could change on my computer's settings to make the forum report the right time; if my computer is reporting the right time, it's the forum at fault, after all.

To make things worse, all the automatic calendar times have advanced one hour.  Innocent Investigations ran at 8pm EST last night (8pm to 11:59pm), but the calendar now reports its start time and end times as each one hour later (9pm and 12:59am).  Also, I'm 99.9% certain Eor's quest Thursday will begin at 8pm EDT, but it now shows 9pm as the start time (images attached).  This is a bad thing.

So, summary: the forum clock is an hour slow (for some of us), and the calendar is an hour fast.

If there is something we can do to get the times right, can someone make a dedicated, specific post somewhere?  If there's nothing we can do, is there something someone else can do?  I'm concerned there are going to be a lot of screwed up quests and unhappy people for a while, and I'd like to see it prevented rather than waded through, y'know?

Thanks.

Title: Re: time change
Post by: ycleption on March 09, 2008, 02:27:52 PM

For the interim, while things are messed up, can I suggest everybody agree to post a GMT time, along with whatever else they post, which will let people translate themselves (since I think most people know their GMT offset, and that's static)

Title: Re: time change
Post by: Marswipp on March 10, 2008, 10:57:36 AM

Daylight Savings Time (for the GMT-n timezones) usually shifts one hour closer to GMT.

My physical timezone is GMT-6, but because of Daylight Savings, I'm having to use GMT-5 calculations.

Title: Re: time change
Post by: Falonthas on March 10, 2008, 12:13:38 PM

edt is gmt -4

and if you go to the very bottom it says your time is now gmt-4 the time is

Title: Re: time change
Post by: orth on March 10, 2008, 12:41:44 PM

The forum clock in the top right has been updated.

Calendar times will be broken unless the person who creates the events follows Step 2 (the tricky part) of the following post:

http://forums.layonara.com/468832-post1.html

Title: Re: time change
Post by: lonnarin on March 10, 2008, 01:19:55 PM

Thanks!  this outta tide us over till Stardates finally catch on, heheh.