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Oblivion Kaos
0z0ne Bringer
Join date: 28 Sep 2005
Posts: 17
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12-02-2005 02:35
like in IRC or other chat systems, why not adding a timestamp at the beginning of every IM line; imagine you are away from the computer, you want to know when someone sent an IM, am I right?
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
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12-02-2005 02:38
This has come up before, and sure, I'd like it too.
Part of my reason for wanting it is... humans without a sense of time tend to go INSANE. _____________________
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Oblivion Kaos
0z0ne Bringer
Join date: 28 Sep 2005
Posts: 17
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Good point
12-02-2005 02:44
I absolutely agree... but Im getting new questions, what timezone to show? Linden? GMT?
and what perception of time? What if I want to have the full virtual experience and I don't want to see other clocks than SL clocks? ummmm |
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
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12-02-2005 02:49
It initially makes sense to show it as whatever the inworld clock shows it as—SLT. I dunno if there'll be more scalable time choices available like a converter, but an easy look up at the topright corner can at least form a sense of relativity.
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Argent Stonecutter
Emergency Mustelid
Join date: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 20,263
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12-02-2005 11:59
Part of my reason for wanting it is... humans without a sense of time tend to go INSANE.  |
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Strife Onizuka
Moonchild
Join date: 3 Mar 2004
Posts: 5,887
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12-02-2005 14:24
Make it a setting and put it in the prefrences.
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Shadow Garden
Just horsin' around
Join date: 17 Jul 2005
Posts: 226
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12-02-2005 14:26
I'd go for this. We get timestamps for message while we are away, why not while we are online as well. Would want to have it where it can be toggled on and off easily though.
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Aldar Hartunian
Registered User
Join date: 23 Dec 2005
Posts: 8
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02-27-2006 05:39
It really makes no sense to me why this is NOT an option. Of course, the time should be in SL time. But hey, maybe even make that a secondary option, "timestamp reflects local time or SL time."
The lack of this feature really baffles me. |
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Ordinal Malaprop
really very ordinary
Join date: 9 Sep 2005
Posts: 4,607
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02-27-2006 05:43
Should definitely be a setting. I have to use a chatlogger if I actually want to record a conversation for posterity - otherwise you can't tell who is replying instantly, and who left a five minute pause.
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Draco18s Majestic
Registered User
Join date: 19 Sep 2005
Posts: 2,744
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03-03-2006 09:07
Good idea.
Old idea. Badly wanted idea. Why don't we have it? I've seen (and voted for) this in Feature Voting. |
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James Linden
Linden Lab Developer
Join date: 20 Nov 2002
Posts: 115
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04-25-2006 15:02
Done for 1.9.1.
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Phoenix McGann
Registered User
Join date: 8 Nov 2005
Posts: 36
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Time display
04-25-2006 19:13
It initially makes sense to show it as whatever the inworld clock shows it as—SLT. I dunno if there'll be more scalable time choices available like a converter, but an easy look up at the topright corner can at least form a sense of relativity. Hey guys we are all using these magical boxes known as computers. Would it be beyond the imagined borders of the possible to implement a local time display say SL time + 8 hours (uK time) so that anything with a time stamp showed a meaningful time on the client? Say a friend in Seattle sends an im at midnight his time which also happens to be midnight SL time (go with it if it isn't, it doesn't affect the argument) He sees it as stamped 00:00am but when I open SL and look I see that it was 08:00am. I now don't have to use too many fingers to work out (assuming that the time is 08:25am) that the message was sent 25 minutes ago. It would make working out when events are on a snap, meetings would not be missed..... Thanks for your time )Phoe (Chronologically challenged) |
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
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04-25-2006 19:19
Done for 1.9.1. James w00h00! Phoenix--the timestamp display is localized, which means it'll show in your local time. Please play with Second Life Preview 1.9.1 for yourself and see if that's what you wanted. _____________________
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Draco18s Majestic
Registered User
Join date: 19 Sep 2005
Posts: 2,744
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04-26-2006 07:41
w00h00! Phoenix--the timestamp display is localized, which means it'll show in your local time. Please play with Second Life Preview 1.9.1 for yourself and see if that's what you wanted. Wootness. Thanks Lindens. Finally I'll know when someone IMed me (and beable to know if I stood them up by getting distracted ;P). |
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Eep Quirk
Absolutely Relative
Join date: 15 Dec 2004
Posts: 1,211
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05-07-2006 18:12
There needs to be an option to NOT use military/24-hour time (and for seconds). The normal SL clock isn't 24-hour so why is the timestamp? Inconsistent!
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