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    Default Anyone good with timezones?

    Can anyone tell me what time 4:00AM PST would be at GMT -5

    Oh and to give this a topic, what do you feel of timezones? I find it annoying how there isn't 1 universal timezone everyone has to learn so you can read announcements properly

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goldenboko View Post
    I find it annoying how there isn't 1 universal timezone everyone has to learn so you can read announcements properly
    It's called +/- GMT. You just used it.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Old Manus View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Goldenboko View Post
    I find it annoying how there isn't 1 universal timezone everyone has to learn so you can read announcements properly
    It's called +/- GMT. You just used it.
    Oh, well then I wish companies would start using it!

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    <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time">UTC and GMT are practically the same</a>. But if you're a company that deals mainly with customers in one location it's convenient to give them times they expect to see.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rubah View Post
    <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time">UTC and GMT are practically the same</a>. But if you're a company that deals mainly with customers in one location it's convenient to give them times they expect to see.
    I don't think MMO's deal with local areas xD

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    GMT is only used by europeans.. americans all use EST or something like that


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    Quote Originally Posted by Goldenboko View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by rubah View Post
    <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time">UTC and GMT are practically the same</a>. But if you're a company that deals mainly with customers in one location it's convenient to give them times they expect to see.
    I don't think MMO's deal with local areas xD
    You said companies, not mmos!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aerith's Knight View Post
    GMT is only used by europeans.. americans all use EST or something like that
    Only in North America (USA, and only in some places, I don't know if Canada uses it), but Latin America uses GMT widely (in some places the GMT+/-n they use gets a name change, but it's just to get a fixed name, if my memory doesn't fails). Oh yeah, and some of them use DST.

    OT, I like timezones, only because I can mess someone's mind with my timezone and theirs xD.
    Last edited by Ramza Beoulve; 01-05-2008 at 12:42 AM.


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    EST = GMT-5
    PST = GMT-8

    GMT, EST, PST are all names for time zones in the UTC system.

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    GMT is planetwide.. centered in the middle of the map, which is green-something.. a town in england..

    whatever the UTC system is.. i dont know.. but GMT is the standard.. whatever you americans cook up doesnt count for the rest of us


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    Quote Originally Posted by Aerith's Knight View Post
    GMT is planetwide.. centered in the middle of the map, which is green-something.. a town in england..

    whatever the UTC system is.. i dont know.. but GMT is the standard.. whatever you americans cook up doesnt count for the rest of us
    Greenwich, which is where the prime meridian is.

    GMT is the name of time zone for UTC+0.

    UTC is the current system of time zones.
    Your in UTC+1, which has several different names depending on where you live.

    In total there are 24 main time zones, with some countries in their own time zones.

    UTC was created by several nations, and the center is actually in France.

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    Quote Originally Posted by qwertyxsora View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Aerith's Knight View Post
    GMT is planetwide.. centered in the middle of the map, which is green-something.. a town in england..

    whatever the UTC system is.. i dont know.. but GMT is the standard.. whatever you americans cook up doesnt count for the rest of us
    Greenwich, which is where the prime meridian is.

    GMT is the name of time zone for UTC+0.

    UTC is the current system of time zones.
    Your in UTC+1, which has several different names depending on where you live.

    In total there are 24 main time zones, with some countries in their own time zones.

    UTC was created by several nations, and the center is actually in France.
    Before today i have never heard of UTC, while i have been taught about GMT.. even on the map there is GMT

    but it would be just for france to put the middle in their country.. buncha selfish dudes


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    I stole this from wikipedia
    Here are the time zones in Europe

    Time zones of Europe:
    <table style="background-color: inherit;"><tr> <td style="background-color: rgb(95, 97, 191); color: white; text-align: center;">blue</td> <td>Western European Time (UTC+0)
    Western European Summer Time (UTC+1)</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: rgb(193, 95, 97); color: white; text-align: center;">red</td> <td>Central European Time (UTC+1)
    Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: rgb(215, 214, 92); text-align: center;">yellow</td> <td>Eastern European Time (UTC+2)
    Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3)</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: rgb(94, 191, 95); color: white; text-align: center;">green</td> <td>Moscow Time (UTC+3)
    Moscow Summer Time (UTC+4)</td></tr></table>

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    quote from wikipedia
    Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in London. It is now often used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, although strictly UTC is an atomic time scale which only approximates GMT in the old sense


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