Timezones

Hetta · Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 2:23 pm Post subject: Timezones

Someone, somewhere, somewhen, somehow, set somewhat wonky timezones for this forum.
Helsinki time is GMT +3 hours (or London +2 hours, at least in winter).

However, in order to get this forum to work with Helsinki time, I need to tell it that I'm at GMT +4 hours.

There's actually a http://greenwichmeantime.com -site. Laughing

Oh well, it's needed, I was under the impression that GMT = London time... it's not.

Hetta

steveo · Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 3:01 pm Post subject:

Actually, it's supposed to be (GMT - 5) hours because the server's in New York, but that doesn't really work out right.

I played with it for about a year when I first set up the boards and couldn't get it to match up to anything that made sense, so I gave up.

We're on Greenland time, cope.

By the way, this is a nifty site, if Argentina doesn't make your brain hurt.
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JIM · Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 4:04 pm Post subject:

Actually, I think Greenland time makes perfect sense for this lot.

Could be worse, we could be on Newfoundland time.
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Deuterium Boy · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 7:32 pm Post subject:

Damn those Newfies and their bloody 1/2 hour time zone difference. Damn them all to hellllllllll!! Muah hahahahahahaha Evil or Very Mad

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I've always wondered why GMT is also referred to as Zulu time. Here I though the Zulus lived in South Africa, and the wonderful world of the Lion King. Any guesses?
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Maracus · Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 1:09 pm Post subject: Johannesburg?

Is jo-burg just below Grenwich? And why isn't it called grenwich time instead of zulu time? Is it sort of like that adam sandler professor who just liked the sound of the word plutonium? Someone just thought it sounded neat and went "Hey, lets call it ZULU time." Or it could have been they just broke out the monkeys and typewriters who wrote the complete works of shakespeare and had them choose a button.

Who knows.

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Hetta · Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 9:44 pm Post subject: Re: Johannesburg?

Deuterium Boy · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 3:57 pm Post subject:

Time zones are easy, I just let my computer tell me what time it is. At least that worked until my computer crashed in Deleware. Then I started waking up at 6:00 am (at least it was in some time zone somewhere, I wasn't sure because the computer was dead) and having a hankerin for corn flakes in the middle of the day. I realy should learn to be less dependent on technology. I heard a rumor once that it's possible to tell what time to is by looking at the sun. After blindng myself I decided it was easier to deal with tech.
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Hetta · Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2002 1:29 am Post subject:

OK, so we applied wintertime tonight, so now I'm GMT + 2 hours... but need to tell the Profile that I'm at GMT + 3 hours.

Laughing

Hetta

Deuterium Boy · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2002 5:26 pm Post subject:

Now here's the big question. Does it matter? Yes the forum lists what time you posted something but does anyone ever look at this? And if they do does it make any difference what time someone else posted something?

PS. Excuse my ignorance but this is the only forum (all of it, not just JIM's chunk) I post to.
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steveo · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2002 5:27 pm Post subject:

Honestly, I've never even thought about it before this thread. It tells me which posts are new, I read those. That's all I need to know.
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jrconlin · UH Author Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Posts: 16

It very important to Salad Barbarian. Salad Barbarian use posting dates to set VCR. Granted, Salad Barbarian still trying to get hang of Daylight Saving Time since Salad Barbarian have to make early withdrawal two years ago. Now every two hours or so Salad Barbarian suffer blackouts.

(Early withdrawal penalty not as bad as Salad Barbarian first thought, but interest still big pain in the parsnips.)
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Deuterium Boy · Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2002 7:31 pm Post subject:

Maracus · Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 8:32 am Post subject: agreed

I also agree with the posting times. I'm more concerned with what's new, as compared to when it was posted.
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