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Peter20
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1 more idea from me i think on the home page we should have the date and all the times for the time zones sometimes i have no idea. exspecily the time zone thing some times i might want to be able to covert time to lets say somewhere in the UK

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Gantic
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Use a timezone map and factor in daylight saving. It's not that hard.

Peter20
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Peasant

i do not have a timezone map

Gantic
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This one does all of the calculations for you.

Peter20
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Peasant

oh kool thanks gantic, thats useful

Freakenstein
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Though it might be beneficial in a way to see at what time a user is reporting from. Say Gantic is posting from California. To me, that's -3 in hours. So at 12:00 Noon, Gantic will post, his time being 9:00. There could be a fixture showing his time, and under that, your time that he posted.

Certain times may indicate whether a user will leave or come on, if you know the schedule, like going to bed or going to school.

cormyn
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it'd be easy enough to do if we store everything in "california time" and adjust it for each user if they select a time zone.

Freakenstein
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I'd like that. It could be in a post that first shows California time (which would be universal to AG'ers if added), and under it showing their timezone when they posted. It could make a nice forum game as well when pulled off, but that's not that important :-)

MrDayCee
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This would make a great addition to users gaving trouble with the different time zones all over the world! I'm all for it! =D

Is this difficult to implement then? :/

cormyn
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Yeah we'd probably show everything in California time, unless you set a time zone in your profile.

cormyn
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Right now, everything gets set according to our server's time, which are hosted somewhere in the Eastern time zone, so everything's off by 3 hours for us here in California.

MrDayCee
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All sounds pretty clear to me! How come you have time to write replies to forum posts?! 0_o

Not busy with opening the doors yet? People are pounding them in anxiety to get in... :P

ArmorL3gend
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Peasant

This would make a great addition to users gaving trouble with the different time zones all over the world! I'm all for it! =D


I agree with MrDayCee
Peter20
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yea we could put what time zone were in then it would show on our profile

cormyn
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MrDayCee, ROFL, good point.

Note to self: MrDayCee is not allowed in the beta...

Kidding! The beta sign-up site will go live shortly. We needed a lunch break.

Google567
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Everyone needs lunch even those highway workers who my grandpa always seems to drive by and they are looking at a hole all together and then he says "I'm paying them to do this?"

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