is this board on Hawaiian time?

[paul]

someone, please fix the clock

[ALBPM]

No, it says at the bottom of the posts - all times GMT (UK) time. Hey, it's only fair to have it on European time. For the past year or more it has been set to (US Central time).
I'm at (US Mountain time) and just subtract 7 hours.

Paul

[paulcs]

"All times are GMT." It says this somewhere towards the bottom of the page. MURC World Headquarters is in the UK.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Ant]

Why would we need to fix the clock? It's perfectly correct I've just cheked it against my watch.

[Scytale]

So it's even worse. Both your watch and BBS are in need of repair...

[Guyver]

Now there's an idea for a "Java Script" . Have it check each users system for their time zone, convert the data, and display the time in the "AHEM" proper time zone per user.

Or, just allow the user profile to keep the TZ and adjust accordingly!

[This message has been edited by Guyver (edited 09-09-1999).]

[Jorden]

Ant... errr, GMT doesn't use DST.
So, we're at summertime, +1h GMT for London, +2h GMT for me in Holland...

It's not set at GMT, but your local time

Or the server doesn't know DST???
Around October 31st it should subtract 1 hour from all our posting times, for then the rest of England is at GMT again, while we run +1h.

(Does any of this make sense?? )

Jorden.

[Ant]

Err yes...

Shall I set the date to Euro format as well to confuse those North Americans even more?

[agallag]

Nah, switch to the Julian calendar. That'll mess em up

[Guyver]

Guyver's Log - GuyverDate 34143.321...

Err.. Captain's Log - StarDate 34143.321... Having successfully confused the natives of Planet MURC in the Matroxian star system, the one lone survivor of the thought dead Antian race has eluded our sensor's for the nonce. We shall find him, and bring forth a new era of interopability and succesful date/time conversions.

[paulcs]

Now, now. I count one confused North American. Most of use have figured out the Prime Meridian doesn't run through Honolulu.

Fun facts: The first meridian went through Rhodes. The Greenwich Prime Meridian was first proposed, I believe, in the early 1870's. Bickering about this went on for years until the French, who drew the Prime Meridian straight through Paris on both land maps and sea charts, agreed on Greenwich with the condition that Britain conform to the metric system.

The United States accepted the Greenwich Prime Meridian, but maintained a system of measure based upon an English monarch's shoe size.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

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[Scytale]

Let's face it, time sucks: 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, 30ish days in a month, 12 months in a year, 100 years in a century... Then 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute, and then a fallback to metric again...?
And to make things worse we all want it to be midday at 12:00 AM.

When are we going to make up our mind about that mess???

[Vic]

Has anyone got the time?


ere, what's that Dome for?

[SteveC]

Um, it's still GMT(UK) for me.

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Cheers,
Steve

PS: Some or all of the above message may be wrong, or, just as likely, correct. Depends on what mood I'm in. And what you know. ;¬)

[Joel]

Test

Joel

Still shows GMT for me.

[This message has been edited by Joel (edited 09-10-1999).]