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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Fri Sep 5th at 6:13am 2003

I was just looking at the time zone stats, and was suprised to see how many people there are in the -12 GMT group. Is this maybe people who didn't bother to specify a time zone? I thought -12 was somewhere in the western pacific ocean.

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Posted by Krogoth on Fri Sep 5th at 8:04am 2003

Most peple have no idea in wat zone they live I think, so if they have to be somewhere at 2.00 PM they will go there at 2.00 AM



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Posted by Leperous on Fri Sep 5th at 12:44pm 2003

I think it was because the timezone dropdown on the register page was b0rked and people are actually in the -7 region :/



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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Fri Sep 5th at 3:50pm 2003

ah, that makes sense. I thought it seemed like there were too few of us from the americas (-5-8). [addsig]



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Posted by fraggard on Fri Sep 5th at 4:58pm 2003

My timezone doesn't exist (GMT+5:30)



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Posted by Myrk- on Fri Sep 5th at 5:15pm 2003

Nor does the current UK time lol, GMT Daylight Savings. Or does it.... [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Sep 5th at 6:50pm 2003

most of us are in the -7 range.. mine is US central time.. [addsig]



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Posted by Jinx on Fri Sep 5th at 8:16pm 2003

if you tell me which one is actually Eastern time I'll set it. I don't know/care what that is in GMT, so I didn't bother





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Posted by Cash Car Star on Fri Sep 5th at 8:20pm 2003

US East Coast is -5 GMT



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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Sep 5th at 8:20pm 2003

? posted by Jinx

if you tell me which one is actually Eastern time I'll set it. I don't know/care what that is in GMT, so I didn't bother

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germany is 7 hours in front of us in central time..

 

[edit] BUT as ccs just reminded me.. i dont remember if thats during DST or not

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Posted by Cash Car Star on Fri Sep 5th at 8:26pm 2003

I think the board autocompensates for Daylight Savings Time, at least I don't remember having to fiddle with it.

I'm not sure why you are mentioning Germany since the G stands for Greenwich, a city in England from whence the standardization comes (prime meridian and whatnot). And East Coast is definatley five hours behind Greenwich.





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Posted by Cash Car Star on Fri Sep 5th at 8:27pm 2003

Besides, since we have daylight savings time, and GMT doesn't actually have it, we would be one hour up and so it would be -4 instead of -5, not the other direction (-6)



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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Sep 5th at 8:29pm 2003

i know its greenwich silly, but isn't it the same time zone?

 

anyways.. i was thinkin of some friends i have in germany, and a conversation we had once about this topic..

i could be wrong, but i was sure it was the same time zone..

/me apologizes if i err

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Posted by Cash Car Star on Fri Sep 5th at 8:32pm 2003

I'm fairly sure Germany is +1



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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Sep 5th at 8:37pm 2003

? posted by Cash Car Star
I'm fairly sure Germany is +1

which, would account for my 6 in the first post..

 

/me appologizes.. my bad

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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Fri Sep 5th at 11:04pm 2003

the time zone (+ or - GMT) has nothing to do with DLST. you use the non daylight time to determain the zone.

*I think*

Oh, and if you want to know what time zone you are in, just double click your clock in windows and hit the time zone tab.

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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Sep 5th at 11:09pm 2003

? posted by Tracer Bullet

Oh, and if you want to know what time zone you are in, just double click your clock in windows and hit the time zone tab.

assuming, the dumb son-ova-biach who set it up originally, knew what zone was which too

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Posted by Gorbachev on Fri Sep 5th at 11:26pm 2003

funny thing, today in geography we learned that even though many European countries lie within the same timezone technically as Great Britian/UK they operate together in the +1 timezone. Something like Portugal to around the Slovak countries. [addsig]



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Posted by Cash Car Star on Sat Sep 6th at 12:01am 2003

Timezones are all crazy bent to group countries together for easiest synchronization. Lines of longitude are just a guide, not a rule. India and Newfoundland actually have their own timezones that are half an hour off elsewhere. http://www.convertit.com/Global/World_Time/Time_Zones_of_the_World_Large.JPG



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Sep 6th at 12:13am 2003

someone needs to enlighten them as to more colors

nice pic tho CCS

 

that pic would look cool on a map wall someplace

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