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Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - Help, Suggestions, Bug Reports - Feature suggestion: Time tag | New poll | | |
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Smallhacker Super Koopa I AM A Group Of Officially Frustrated Younglings, G.O.O.F.Y. MEMBER |
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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) |
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D 2007 D Since: 02-19-06 Last post: 6478 days Last view: 6478 days |
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It would also require users type in dates formatted in a very specific way... | |||
HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6431 days Last view: 6431 days |
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Which isn't exactly hard to do. I like the idea. | |||
Danielle 6730 Administratorrrr HELLO THERE Since: 11-17-05 From: California Rate me ^_^ Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6430 days |
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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. exp |
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Ailure Mr. Shine I just want peace... Since: 11-17-05 From: Sweden Last post: 6431 days Last view: 6430 days |
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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. (edited by Ailure on 04-11-06 03:39 AM) |
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D 2007 D Since: 02-19-06 Last post: 6478 days Last view: 6478 days |
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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. |
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