Bug: Apolyton Clock

[Skanky Burns]

Hey, I actually agree with Ras on this.

:b:

[BigFurryMonster]

Okay, okay, I'll pretend to be in London then. But don't be surprised if I'm too late for chat!

[Frozzy]

There is no GMT + 13 time, so in summer all of my times are off by an hour.

This is no trouble in winter (I can set it to GMT +11). In summer I never get the correct time when looking at posts.

It is currently GMT +13 now, FYI.

[Rasbelin]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Hey, I actually agree with Ras on this.

I'm sure there's many issues we both can agree on.

BFM,

that's not a real excuse really. Simple maths. Earlier this year I had to quickly count in my head what time it was in EST, due to my clan membership, so I had to keep track when matches and scrimmages are. And when you do that live on TeamSpeak (speak about times), then you quickly pick it up. Really, you have to admit that's not an issue. Even less of an issue if we would switch to Swatch Internet Times and start measuring time in Beats.

[Skanky Burns]

lol Indeed.

All they need to do to "fix" this properly is just add some more times to the time list (such as +13 for example) so that anyone can pick the right time, even if the server thinks they are in a different country.

[Asmodean]

Hmmm...I thought that this forum was for reporting bugs about Apolyton and discussing ways to make Apolyton a better experience for everybody.

Sad to see that in recent threads, people get flamed for doing just that.

Nobody says that a thread in this forum means that the poster demands immediate action. On the contrary, a post in this forum should be taken a assistance to the owners. Sort of a "kicking ideas around" kind of thing.

But apparently some people are too busy finding things to criticize, too appreciate that a thread in this forum, however insignificant, is genuinely meant as an assistance to the community as a whole.

Asmodean

[Rasbelin]

C'mon, Asmo. :-) You should know that we didn't mean anything bad with the criticism. Of course the thingy mentioned by BFM has some importance, but right now it feels very minor.

[MrWhereItsAt]

Well this is the only ongoing bug at Poly that annoys me, and there is no way around it. Makes life in Democracy Games utter hell at times. I take Ming's point about just changing the time option every now and again, but that is not an option for us Kiwis (no GMT+13).

So, instead of asking for some probably difficult like automatic taking-into-account of daylight savings, can I request an easier way to fix this problem - can some Administrator please add a GMT+13 line to the list of possible times?

Honestly, it's bad enough I have to learn what all your silly little past timezones are without having to remember that mine is wrong too!

[Skanky Burns]

Attention all New Zealanders:

PM me if you want me to help you get a +13 timezone.

[BigFurryMonster]

Thanks, Asmodean. That was indeed the intention of this thread.

If the drop-down list can be adjusted easily I suggest to remove all locations from it -- just work with GMT, GMT+1, ... , GMT+13.

[rah]

Why?
I'm sure there are a lot of people that need to see the location because they're not sure what the + is for their timezone.

[BigFurryMonster]

Because it'll be correct then.

But you've got a point -- maybe it can be made something like this:

GMT +1 - London (summer). Paris (winter)
GMT +2 - Paris (summer), Athens (winter)
...

[Rasbelin]

Rah,

they can look it up elsewhere. Just add a hyperlink to Time and Date.com next to the drop down menu and voilá. No problem at all.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by rah
Why?
I'm sure there are a lot of people that need to see the location because they're not sure what the + is for their timezone.

But how does the current system help any, what with you ending up at the wrong time if you use the correct location...

[H Tower]

I have a solution to GMT +13 problem. Ban the Kiwis