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thekitchensink on 14 August 2008

gurok said:

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 milliseconds 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.

That could work, although it could be a bit confusing. Maybe it should say exactly what they entered, but automatically put the "10:00 AM on Thursday the 14th of August, 2008" in brackets beside it.

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colonelstubbs on 14 August 2008

Why dont we all just move to the same country? That way we all have the same time. We could find a desert island and name it 'vgchartzonia'

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Retrasado on 15 August 2008

colonelstubbs said:
Why dont we all just move to the same country? That way we all have the same time. We could find a desert island and name it 'vgchartzonia'

Why a desert island? Why not just take over a continent or two?

OT: I think it would be nice, but it's hardly necessary. What would be nice is the abilty to show forum post times in your own time zone.

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