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| D 2007 Posts: 132/497 |
Originally posted by AilureBecause it is pure text. (at least it isn't just attached to the signature anymore...) And I (like others) already think in "XX:XX:XX board time", and know that it's +/- x hours from where I am. |
| Ailure Posts: 1293/2602 |
And board time is GMT -05:00. 
But it remidns me, certain thigns on the board is always GMT -05:00, even with the timezone offset set. Which is annoying. Such as when you edited posted, prboably becuse it's posted in pure text.  |
| Danielle Posts: 3126/6737 |
I think it would be rather confusing. I've gotten used to saying a time as "blahblah board time" so that it is universal. We all know how many hours from the server we are, we all know what time it is on the board in comparison to us. When anyone here says midnight, I immediately think 9 pm, because I'm 3 hours behind the server.
It would take some adjusting for me. Expressing it by board time isn't hard, to me. |
| HyperHacker Posts: 1646/5072 |
Which isn't exactly hard to do. I like the idea. |
| D 2007 Posts: 131/497 |
It would also require users type in dates formatted in a very specific way... |
| Smallhacker Posts: 454/832 |
Okay. There's more than 1200 members on this board. We've most likely got one member from every time zone.
Sometimes, there are competitions on the board or people making something together and stuff. Sometimes, people say stuff like "Send your answers to me before 10 pm 04/15 CST". Let's see...CST... That's... Hmm... GMT-6, isn't it? Okay. I'm... GMT+1? That makes... 7 hours... 10 pm must be... 5 am? Oh, and it's 04/16, not 04/15. Wait... Is that right? Uuuh... I... think so... Okay, it's not always that messy, but still. To make this easier, I suggest making a time tag. You type [time], followed by time and date, and end it with [/time]. The board then automatically converts it to board time. When another user views the post, the board converts from the board time to the user's time. For instance, if someone in the CST time zone posted [time]10:00p2006-04-15[/time] it would appear to him/her as 10:00p2006-04-15 and it would appear to me (GMT+1) as 05:00a2006-04-16 Comments? Questions? (Note that this would require a "Using DST" setting in the edit profile page) |
