I second that, Words Of Wisdom. It would be great if post times showed up in accordance with a time zone we could define in our user profiles.
How about a date/time tool on the Rich Text Reply page that lets you insert a date/time in your local time, stores it as UTC time, and displays it as a date/time in the user's local time zone? For instance, I could enter the following:
I will start my OMF 2097 IPX server at 1:00 AM on Friday the 15th of August, 2008. Who wants to be the lucky guy/gal to play me?
The red/yellow box would be an atomically selectable object with a toolbar button or something to allow us to edit/choose times. Then, that text would be stored on the server as:
I will start my OMF 2097 IPX server at 1218726000. Who wants to be the lucky guy/gal to play me?
That's 3:00 PM on Thursday the 14th of August, 2008 GMT as a number of seconds since midnight 1/1/1970. It's GMT, so Soleron would be happy. And for example, citizens of Chicago would see this in my post:
I will start my OMF 2097 IPX server at 10:00 AM on Thursday the 14th of August, 2008. Who wants to be the lucky guy/gal to play me?
Also, VGC time feels like reinventing the wheel. Specifically, the Internet ticks wheel. We could use ticks and make everyone/noöne happy at the same time.
Edit: seconds, not milliseconds.
