Someone buy Turbine a clock

[whheydt]

As ever, Sapience, the voice of reason !!

Might have to take extra care in future with a move to put England (including Greenwich !) on to Central European Time! (politicians do love to play God)

Wouldn't effect GMT (aka Zulu time, aka UT) in the slightest. That designation has nothing to do with how people in Great Britain set their clocks.

--W. H. Heydt

Old Used Programmer

[Dotlbeme]

O/T, but what is a Turbine "slappy", please?

slappy=apologist, sycophant, boot-licker etc.

[Brandon_Blackbird]

Very simple solution - stop posting the times for things as EST (which means something totally different to people in other countries), and post them as /servertime instead. No more confusion over forum settings or living in different timezones.

As I post this it is 2:15am on Tuesday the 25th of January.

When you type /servertime, it gives you the time based on your computer time zone settings.

[Trilli]

The problem with being in the Boston area (Westwood, I believe) is the use of traffic circles on the road nets. Visitors to that area end up going round-and-round trying to find the right exit. The locals -- like Turbine employees -- have gotten used to the traffic circles, but they end up getting to work quite dizzy.

This is one reason the devs are slightly off their ballgame these days (like the Red Sox).

Unfortunately, the traffic circles have another dire effect; with so many in the same vicinity, they create a vortex -- a time vortex -- that causes all external viewers of Turbine activities to perceive time differently.

You are forewarned -- should you ever travel on business to Boston, beware the vortices. As you leave the airport, be forewarned that you are very likely to be caught up in a vortex -- in spite of traffic signs warning you otherwise -- and are likely to end up somewhere lost in a deep, dark tunnel under the water, forced to pay tolls on roads to nowhere, as they lead you to traffic circles and make you one of the vortex zombies yourself.

You are doomed!

They are in Needham now. It's a great town. My Husband and I lived there when we were in the Boston area a few years back.

As for the traffic circles/round-a-bouts. I still have nightmares about those.

/shudders

[tessathecat]

When you type /servertime, it gives you the time based on your computer time zone settings.

I'm in the PST zone. When I type /servertime it gives the time in EST not PST.

(And the time zone settings for my PC are set correctly.)

[Shukar]

Unfortunately, the traffic circles have another dire effect; with so many in the same vicinity, they create a vortex -- a time vortex -- that causes all external viewers of Turbine activities to perceive time differently.

You are forewarned -- should you ever travel on business to Boston, beware the vortices. As you leave the airport, be forewarned that you are very likely to be caught up in a vortex -- in spite of traffic signs warning you otherwise -- and are likely to end up somewhere lost in a deep, dark tunnel under the water, forced to pay tolls on roads to nowhere, as they lead you to traffic circles and make you one of the vortex zombies yourself.

You are doomed!

QFT.

Do you know there are a pair of traffic circles in Cambridge that my friends and I call the "double doughnuts of doom"? (Yes, there IS a Dunkin' Doughnuts between them... but then again there is likely to be a Dunkin' Doughnuts between any two arbitrary points in the Boston metropolitan area.)

[Herukhuti]

I'm in the PST zone. When I type /servertime it gives the time in EST not PST.

(And the time zone settings for my PC are set correctly.)

QFT.

I am in Sydney, /servertime 6am Monday was (iirc) 9pm Monday local time.

The point I am making is that everyone is on /servertime regardless of whether they live in Sydney, Singapore, Seattle, Santiago or Samoa. On every occasion that Turbine has posted a time someone always asks when that time is. Posting times in /servertime means there can never be any confusion, ever. The worst that can happen is someone asks what /servertime is and are told to type it in the chatbox.

[BlancoFallowhide]

QFT.

I am in Sydney, /servertime 6am Monday was (iirc) 9pm Monday local time.

The point I am making is that everyone is on /servertime regardless of whether they live in Sydney, Singapore, Seattle, Santiago or Samoa. On every occasion that Turbine has posted a time someone always asks when that time is. Posting times in /servertime means there can never be any confusion, ever. The worst that can happen is someone asks what /servertime is and are told to type it in the chatbox.

I suspect the reason they don't do this is that server time is only accessible in game. So when the servers are down it would be impossible to calculate when they are coming back up. It also means anybody checking the forums about when the servers are going to go down would then have to log into the game to do the calculation. Right now people can't do the calculation for different time zones. I doubt they could do the calculation to figure out how the server time relates to their local time.

[Scorch2007]

They've NEVER posted their times in Pac time. It's always been Eastern time, since before day 1 of the game release. They do that because they are, and have been, based in Massachusetts and use their local time as the time base. This is nothing new, nothing dramatic, and really not that hard to figure out or deal with. You can use your computer timezones feature to figure out the time difference even.

Based on his other 2 posts, do you really think he's going to acknowledge that he's wrong?
Still it was fun to watch him get gently smacked around for 3 pages.

[Brandon_Blackbird]

I'm in the PST zone. When I type /servertime it gives the time in EST not PST.

(And the time zone settings for my PC are set correctly.)

Okay, what threw me off (aside from the fact that I live in EST) is that when that other person posted that it was "As I post this it is 2:15am on Tuesday the 25th of January."

Naturally, having not had any coffee yet that morning, I thought that's what they saw when they typed /servertime. Now I know better

[Scorch2007]

Be a dumbass on your own time. Be helpful or be silent. Bottom line, 6am used to mean 6am. And they still screwed the pooch on the Yule Fest.

There's no way to help you. You had the timezone wrong and refuse to accept it. It has been pointed out on multiple occasions that the downtime was executed on time and that it has always been executed using eastern standard time.

This thread really isn't about Turbine needing a clock afterall. It is about your inability to take responsibility and your insecurity about your perceived lack of intelligence. I mean seriously, who is so insecure that they have to post their alma mater on a video game forum to justify such a silly mistake.
By putting out such an assertive thread titled "Someone buy Turbine a clock", you had to know that your mistake would be fair game.

You would have come off as more intelligent and mature if you had simply acknowledged that you missed the boat.
Anyone have odds on him becoming more determined that Turbine is at fault?

[Sapience]

We're done here.