Ehhh what time?

RensDG

8:00AM EDT (1:00PM BST) on July 30th

Here on Earth.. in the none english places.. what time is that?

While im at it. This is a multi cultural game. Doesn't it make more sence we would use a time on the forums and website we all know... UTC maybee?

Nestor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UTC_time_offsets

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/

RensDG

That doesn't make more sense if both websites state something different.. In UTC and not EDT or BST.

these links say that either the Netherlands is in either UTC+1 and the other in UTC+2.

Orchish

I don't know anyone in the UK that uses UTC, (not saying people on the UK don't use UTC) It's GMT or BST. So they cannot win either way. Whether they use American,European or British times you will have people cry.

BST is British summer time. So 1pm UK time. Most European countries are 1 hour ahead of us right? so that would be 2pm for you.

RensDG

Okey, maybee i played a bit dumb in the first comment. But as far as i know UTC is the most official world time zone.

The US uses EDT i gues.
The brittish use GMT and BST depending on season.
And i learned GMT. The Netherlands is always Summer and Winter time in GMT+1. But for the brittish the netherlands is either in GMT+1 or GMT+2 depending on season.

What im trying to go for.. wouldn't it be more logical if we used one general time zone for the whole world on the website? Then we can all figgure out what time zone we live seperatly. Now i have to count with time zones i do not exacly know.
Assuming the website doesn't display BST during the winter times.

Rhoric

This site i found is better.

http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

RoyMallis

EDT is UTC-06:00 I believe...

freespirit

Rhoric wrote: »

This site i found is better.

http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

This^^

Even I understand this website......

So it has to be simple!!

SirAndy

RensDG wrote: »

The US uses EDT i guess

You need to start thinking bigger. Much bigger.

EDT covers less than a 1/4 of the continental US ...
;-)

nerevarine1138

While I appreciate that people in Europe play this game, the company is based in America. When they aren't making announcements specific to the EU server, it makes sense for them to use local time (which is EDT/EST in Maryland). Most Americans know how time zones work in our country, but UTC isn't mainstream here.

ShedsHisTail

Dunno about you guys, but I stay on Hawaiian Time.

RoyMallis

nerevarine1138 wrote: »

While I appreciate that people in Europe play this game, the company is based in America. When they aren't making announcements specific to the EU server, it makes sense for them to use local time (which is EDT/EST in Maryland). Most Americans know how time zones work in our country, but UTC isn't mainstream here.

It's my experience as an IT professional that UTC if fairly prominent in setting timezones for Window's OS.

rsciw

Orchish wrote: »

I don't know anyone in the UK that uses UTC, (not saying people on the UK don't use UTC) It's GMT or BST.

UTC is exactly the same as GMT. I know folks using both in the UK (may be job related though, we speak of UTC timezones when it comes to setting times on Linux boxes )

nerevarine1138

RoyMallis wrote: »

nerevarine1138 wrote: »

While I appreciate that people in Europe play this game, the company is based in America. When they aren't making announcements specific to the EU server, it makes sense for them to use local time (which is EDT/EST in Maryland). Most Americans know how time zones work in our country, but UTC isn't mainstream here.

It's my experience as an IT professional that UTC if fairly prominent in setting timezones for Window's OS.

I confess that I've only heard the term UTC in passing on some websites. I'm more familiar with GMT as a time zone, due to having lived in England when I was younger. My computer probably has it as a time zone option, but as far as I know, international business-type people are the only ones who would really know it and the conversion.

isengrimb16_ESO

I'm on Mountain time, it's not a problem for me to count back three hours from EST.

I know GMT, and can count back from that, too, if I have to. Giving it a fancy PC name like UTC is just silly, if it means the same thing. ooo, the big bad Brits, gotta erase any elusion to them.

Considering that the father of "railway time" (ie, time zones), Sandford Fleming (pr. "fleeming") was Canadian, the world should probably be happy he didn't designate Ottawa or something equally dumb as his starting point.

Demands to make the starting point be Mecca are but to laugh.

AngryNord

Zulu Time? :P

indytims_ESO

RoyMallis wrote: »

It's my experience as an IT professional that UTC if fairly prominent in setting timezones for Window's OS.

While the UTC is listed in Windows (at least Win 7 it is), the actual -words- for us Yanks clearly state what we are used to (Eastern Time , Central Time, Mountain Time, Pacific Time, etc).

I had never even heard of UTC until this thread. I've always used regular US time zones, or GMT. If UTC and GMT are the same, then I guess I kinda -did- know what UTC was by default. LOL. But, anyway...

I had never heard of 'BST' either. I thought that might have been a misprint, but there's such a thing as "British Summer Time"? Cool.

Maybe Zeni could just take the extra three seconds and list UTC, EST, BST, and whatever else they want...

lePoissonRouge

Okay, I don't really have an interest in the subject of this post, but I just have to say, whenever I see the title I can't help but imagine the voice of Dan's dad from Game Grumps saying it.

SirAndy

indytims_ESO wrote: »

there's such a thing as "British Summer Time"?

@indytims_ESO
Well, technically, that would be BLRT (British Less Rain Time) ...

Mondo

Dear US stop that AM : PM Madness and make a 24hour Day like the normal World!

Enodoc

I don't know why they've taken to using BST either. I thought they would use the timezones relevant to where the server is, EDT for the NA server and CEST for the EU server. 1:00PM BST is 2:00PM CEST (and 12 noon GMT/UTC).

bFunk

As the EU server will be located in Frankfurt as of tomorrow evening, I hope all announcements related to patching on the EU server will be in CET 24 hour notation as is the norm in continental Europe.

Enodoc

bFunk wrote: »

As the EU server will be located in Frankfurt as of tomorrow evening, I hope all announcements related to patching on the EU server will be in CET 24 hour notation as is the norm in continental Europe.

I would agree with EU server announcements being in CE(S)T, but I think 24-hour notation is unnecessary.

EinionYrth

SirAndy wrote: »

indytims_ESO wrote: »

there's such a thing as "British Summer Time"?

@indytims_ESO
Well, technically, that would be BLRT (British Less Rain Time) ...

No that's BWRT (British Warmer Rain Time)

Sotha_Sil

nerevarine1138 wrote: »

While I appreciate that people in Europe play this game, the company is based in America. When they aren't making announcements specific to the EU server, it makes sense for them to use local time (which is EDT/EST in Maryland). Most Americans know how time zones work in our country, but UTC isn't mainstream here.

Fascinating, but you know we are talking about server migration to Europe - and Europeans are concerned. With all due respect, we couldn't care less about American time.

AgriyaTheGrey

EinionYrthb16_ESO wrote: »

SirAndy wrote: »

indytims_ESO wrote: »

there's such a thing as "British Summer Time"?

@indytims_ESO
Well, technically, that would be BLRT (British Less Rain Time) ...

No that's BWRT (British Warmer Rain Time)

My inner pedant nods in hearty agreement.

Hypertionb14_ESO

can i ask why you are asking for a time conversion.

I'e what is happening at said time...

Edit: never mind, figured out its referancing the EU mega server transition.

Enodoc

Hypertionb14_ESO wrote: »

can i ask why you are asking for a time conversion.

I'e what is happening at said time...

@Hypertionb14_ESO that's the time the EU server will go down on Wednesday for the migration to Frankfurt.

RedMiniStapler

Sotha_Sil wrote: »

Fascinating, but you know we are talking about server migration to Europe - and Europeans are concerned. With all due respect, we couldn't care less about American time.

Maybe they oughta announce it as "13 GMT CEST UTC BST" to cater every Europeans.

AngryNord

Europe have many timezones :P I think Moscow is five hours behind Paris.

Dayel

It must be terrible to be chronologically challenged, I have a friend in Wales who suffers from that.