Topic: Timezone
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I've always wondered what good writing them out does. People don't know in which timezone they live?
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Some people aren't familiar with GMT, especially in the US.
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Smartys wrote:
Some people aren't familiar with GMT, especially in the US.
That's very true -- walking around almost any public place I could easily find you many people who haven't the foggiest what "GMT" is. Moreover, those that do know of it stand a good chance of being ignorant as to what particular GMT zone they reside in.
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On the assumption that the timezone isn't 100% user compatible... Personally i would (if it works like this) get the user to select the current hour they are on then find the difference and then that will be the time for them 
Would that work?
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pogenwurst wrote:
That's very true -- walking around almost any public place I could easily find you many people who haven't the foggiest what "GMT" is. Moreover, those that do know of it stand a good chance of being ignorant as to what particular GMT zone they reside in.
But they know if they're in "mountain time" or whatever?
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More likely than GMT, yeah
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Alright, you've convinced me. The list in the mod qubertman linked to is incomplete though.
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Incomplete? You mean an incomplete list of places?
If so, Windows uses a similar list that we could take pieces from.
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Smartys wrote:
Incomplete? You mean an incomplete list of places?
Yes. It lacks some of the more exotic timezones (e.g. +08:30 etc).
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Rickard wrote:
pogenwurst wrote:That's very true -- walking around almost any public place I could easily find you many people who haven't the foggiest what "GMT" is. Moreover, those that do know of it stand a good chance of being ignorant as to what particular GMT zone they reside in.
But they know if they're in "mountain time" or whatever?
Yeah, that's how they know when TV shows come on in their part of the country. 
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Rickard wrote:
Smartys wrote:Incomplete? You mean an incomplete list of places?
Yes. It lacks some of the more exotic timezones (e.g. +08:30 etc).
8:30? Windows doesn't even have that 
And PunBB doesn't have it either.
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Smartys wrote:
8:30? Windows doesn't even have that
And PunBB doesn't have it either.
Well, pardon me 
It was an example. I was just pointing out that if we use the stuff from the modification that qubertman linked to, there are a few gaps that we would need to fill out.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zones
Did you mean 8:45? 
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Smartys wrote:
Some people aren't familiar with GMT, especially in the US.
Especially since GMT isn't used anymore, it's UTC
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Done.
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Jérémie wrote:
Smartys wrote:Some people aren't familiar with GMT, especially in the US.
Especially since GMT isn't used anymore, it's UTC
And even fewer of us are familiar with UTC.
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I hate timezones almost as much as I hate DST
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I just noticed the change. I will be reverting it to GMT in any forum I run. What the hell is UTC, never heard of it.
21 2008-02-23 15:13 (edited by demetris 2008-02-23 15:18)
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