liveinabin Posted November 28, 2001 Share Posted November 28, 2001 The looming deadline on the Gunfight label competition presented a new confusion on your site. Living in the UK, I have no idea what time it is in whatever bit of america you guys are in. Would it be possible to have some spot on the main messageboard that tells us what the time is where you are? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted November 28, 2001 Share Posted November 28, 2001 The time and date next to your name in your post lists the time that Atariage operates on (Central Time). I am located in Eastern Standard Time, 1 hour ahead. You, located in the UK are in Greenwhich Meantime (or you should be). Therefore, Atariage is 6 hours behind you (and likewise I am 5). As per the deadline. The contest deadline is midnight Nov 28, 12am. For you that would be 4am Greenwhich Meantime, basically you get an extra four hours (kind of). Does this help or just make it more confusing??? Timeless Stan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liveinabin Posted November 29, 2001 Author Share Posted November 29, 2001 hehe yeah, cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted November 29, 2001 Share Posted November 29, 2001 This is one area that Ultimate Bulletin Board (the software you're using right now to read messages here on AtariAge) is relatively weak. It would be great if they added a Time Zone setting for individual users, and then calculated the displayed time for each message based on your own time zone. Not difficult to do programmatically and I bet there are even hacks to UBB to add this functionality. However, the reason it might be setup the way likely has something to do with how UBB generates the HTML for each topic. I believe when someone views a topic, UBB caches the page it generates so the next time someone calls it up the page doesn't have to be regenerated (unless, of course, new messages have been posted). This saves CPU time on the server and causes cached pages to come up more quickly. If timestamps for each post had to be changed on the fly, then this caching scheme wouldn't work. This is my theory as to why UBB doesn't support users' time zones. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liveinabin Posted November 29, 2001 Author Share Posted November 29, 2001 well, I don't really have any need to know my own time on the messageboard ( i got a watch for that ) It's just kinda nice to know if I'm trying to get a raise out of you guys at 4 in the morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmi Posted November 30, 2001 Share Posted November 30, 2001 4:20 Some people might know what this time means Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubersaurus Posted November 30, 2001 Share Posted November 30, 2001 Howdy Doody Time, duh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted December 1, 2001 Share Posted December 1, 2001 THANKS A LOT LEMMI! Now everyone knows what time I get my daily hot water enema. Sheesh, is nothing sacred. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmi Posted December 1, 2001 Share Posted December 1, 2001 quote: Originally posted by StanJr: THANKS A LOT LEMMI! Now everyone knows what time I get my daily hot water enema. Sheesh, is nothing sacred. Ummmm Eeeewwwwwwwwww yucky Quote by ubersaurus Howdy Doody Time, duh. Ding Ding Ding we have a winner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fretwobbler Posted December 10, 2001 Share Posted December 10, 2001 Originally posted by Albert - quoteIt would be great if they added a Time Zone setting for individual users, and then calculated the displayed time for each message based on your own time zone. I read in a UK internet magazine that in order to combat this problem the internet powers that be had devised 'Internet Time'. Basically they had divided 24 hours into 100 equal units, each one being called or referred to as a blip or click or something. Then when you were say, having a live internet chat you would advertise "Chat starts at Blip 25 on 25th Dec 2001" and everybody the world over would know when it started instantly because blip 25 occurs simoultaniously whether your in UK, US, Katmandu or Outer Mongolia. I seem to recall seeing something about it on Discovery Magazine as well, they reported that a couple of major watch manufacturers like Casio and Seiko are releasing wristwatches that display both local and internet time. Whether it will take off or not I dont know - I suppose we'll just have to "watch" this space Adam [ 12-09-2001: Message edited by: Fretwobbler ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liveinabin Posted December 12, 2001 Author Share Posted December 12, 2001 I got internet time on my Swatch 'beat' The only thing I can use it for is to tell the time in Phantasy Star Online. Not very useful for work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liveinabin Posted December 12, 2001 Author Share Posted December 12, 2001 the time now is precisely @716 beats. That dragon on Ragol should just about be waking up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari70s Posted December 13, 2001 Share Posted December 13, 2001 im 1 hr ahead of the time posts on the board . so 1 hr ahead of atariage centeral. 1156pm or 2356 military time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fretwobbler Posted December 13, 2001 Share Posted December 13, 2001 Quote liveinabin - quote: I got internet time on my Swatch 'beat' Your sooooo on the scene liveinabin It must be livin' in UK's Cosmopolitan Capital Beat was the word I was looking for, blip or click????? what was I thinking, dumbass Off topic - BTW is there still a resteraunt called Casa in Brighton? Thats a great place for afternoon eating and boozing Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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