It's probably been asked before and there maybe a website I can relate this to, but I still can't get my head round Second Life Time versus UK time....can anyone please explain to me in simple terms, the relationship of SLT to GMT? I assume its west coast USA? Someone wants me to attend a meeting at 3 p.m. SLT tomorrow and I have absolutely no idea when that is......It's bad enough dealing with natural time differences worldwide with my US/Australian/New Zealander and European friends, without juggling SLT. Does anyone else find it tricky?
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12-03-2009 15:38
It's probably been asked before and there maybe a website I can relate this to, but I still can't get my head round Second Life Time versus UK time....can anyone please explain to me in simple terms, the relationship of SLT to GMT? I assume its west coast USA? Someone wants me to attend a meeting at 3 p.m. SLT tomorrow and I have absolutely no idea when that is......It's bad enough dealing with natural time differences worldwide with my US/Australian/New Zealander and European friends, without juggling SLT. Does anyone else find it tricky? confused.com Yes, it's West Coast USA Pacific time. I believe in relationship to GMT that it is GMT - 8 hours. |
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Brenda Connolly
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12-03-2009 15:39
SL time is US Pacific Time. Right now it is Pacific Standard Time (PST) which is 8 hours behind GMT. When we go into Daylight Savings Time in the spring, the difference will be 7 hours.
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Innula Zenovka
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12-03-2009 15:41
Yeah, it's West Coast time which is 8 hours behind the UK most of the year (may go a bit haywire for a week or two when the clocks change). There's loads of time and date sites to help you out -- I find http://www.timeanddate.com/ usually tells me what I need to know.
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Adhara Heartsdale
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12-03-2009 15:45
This might be like a really silly suggestion - but I have my primary PC I use for SL on SLT. Some people I know actually have clocks inworld at their home or on thier avatar that has both the SLT and their own time on it.
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Viktoria Dovgal
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12-03-2009 15:45
Yes, SL time is the same as US Pacific time, so you can plug San Francisco into a world clock app and use it interchangeably.
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Peggy Paperdoll
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12-03-2009 15:51
Brenda are you sure that's 7 hours durring the daylight savings time? "Spring forward, fall back"..........that mean we set our clock 1 hour forward which is simulating moving our location 1 time zone further west. PDT is -9 from GMT.
To the OP......your 3 pm SLT meeting is 11 pm GMT. |
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Pete Olihenge
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12-03-2009 16:01
SL time is US Pacific Time. Right now it is Pacific Standard Time (PST) which is 8 hours behind GMT. When we go into Daylight Savings Time in the spring, the difference will be 7 hours. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=224 The clock in my Vista tray can be set up to show up to three different time zones when I hover over or click on it, and I keep two of those set to UK time and Pacific Time. |
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12-03-2009 16:06
On my computer in the taskbar I have my clock set to several different times from around the world.
The default is my local time but if I hover my mouse over it, all the other timezones quickly popup. It's very often used. Also with Firefox there is and extension called FoxClocks which does the same thing. damn.. too slow. _____________________
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Chokolate Latte
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12-03-2009 16:38
And when we go to British Summer Time it'll be back to minus eight hours. The US and the rest of the world disagree as to when to switch to and from DST. I can't remeber who switches first this spring. The clock in my Vista tray can be set up to show up to three different time zones when I hover over or click on it, and I keep two of those set to UK time and Pacific Time. We usually seem to switch our clocks the same time in the spring, but a week earlier than the states in the autumn. SLT is 8 hours behind UK time apart from about a week a year  _____________________
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12-03-2009 16:40
SL time is US Pacific Time. Right now it is Pacific Standard Time (PST) which is 8 hours behind GMT. When we go into Daylight Savings Time in the spring, the difference will be 7 hours. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=224 This is true for maybe a week or so. If in the UK theres a move to BST (British Summer Time) which then syncs back with Daylight Savings Time so the diffrence is 8 hours again. I'm not sure of how many days that are minus 7 versus 8 ( as the Spring forward/Fall back is difrent in the US / UK ). In the UK clocks go forward one hour (to BST) on the last Sunday of March and back one hour on the last Sunday of October,Restoring GMT. _____________________
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Brenda Connolly
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12-03-2009 16:42
Brenda are you sure that's 7 hours durring the daylight savings time? "Spring forward, fall back"..........that mean we set our clock 1 hour forward which is simulating moving our location 1 time zone further west. PDT is -9 from GMT. To the OP......your 3 pm SLT meeting is 11 pm GMT. It's the internet. I'm not standing behind anything I say. *You may be correct. _____________________
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Peggy Paperdoll
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12-03-2009 16:48
GMT doesn't change with spring or fall. Greenwich Mean Time is the time standard since Greenwich, England happens to have the 0 (zero) meridian running through it........they are at the beging of the world.
 They had to start somewhere when figuring out time zones........that location makes sense. I believe the military refers to GMT as Zulu time. |
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Allegria Kanto
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12-03-2009 16:59
Just to further hijack the thread (just a little bit), does anyone else find it completely annoying that notices are now time stamped in GMT rather than SLT? It seems very odd to me, and probably an error on the Lindens part during the latest upgrade. If you are going to have a world time standard, why not use it for in world notices?
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12-03-2009 17:01
GMT doesn't change with spring or fall. Greenwich Mean Time is the time standard since Greenwich, England happens to have the 0 (zero) meridian running through it........they are at the beging of the world. They had to start somewhere when figuring out time zones........that location makes sense. I believe the military refers to GMT as Zulu time.As does NASA and the ESA .. NASA being particullarly awkward As soon as the vehicle has first motion ("Time"  T- to T+)) changes from EST to CST.EST Kennedy Florida to CST Texas. While the MIT (Mission Elapsed Time) is counted Zulu . Days/Hours/Minutes/Seconds/Decade. It can be quite thought provoking sometimes. _____________________
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Pete Olihenge
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12-03-2009 17:03
Zulu time is Universal Coordinated Time (UTC for political language-related reasons) and is based on atomic time clocks with leap seconds added occasionally. GMT is based on mean solar time. They can differ by about up to one second.
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12-03-2009 17:08
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12-03-2009 17:22
It's no more difficult to understand than this...
SLT=PST ...or when Daylight savings is in effect in California, USA... SLT=PDT ...or let's make it even simpler... Whatever time it is in San Francisco, California, United States of America is the EXACT time that it is in Second Life. ...or for those that need visual aides.. http://time.gov/timezone.cgi?Pacific/d/-8/java |
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12-03-2009 19:20
Brenda are you sure that's 7 hours durring the daylight savings time? "Spring forward, fall back"..........that mean we set our clock 1 hour forward which is simulating moving our location 1 time zone further west. PDT is -9 from GMT. To the OP......your 3 pm SLT meeting is 11 pm GMT. Nope, Bren was right. PDT is GMT-7. |
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Peggy Paperdoll
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12-03-2009 20:08
Nope, Bren was right. PDT is GMT-7. Okay..........got my pencil and paper out and drew it. I stand corrected. |
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12-03-2009 20:38
It's no more difficult to understand than this... SLT=PST ...or when Daylight savings is in effect in California, USA... SLT=PDT ...or let's make it even simpler... Whatever time it is in San Francisco, California, United States of America is the EXACT time that it is in Second Life. ...or for those that need visual aides.. http://time.gov/timezone.cgi?Pacific/d/-8/java SLT = PT "Whatever time it is in San Francisco" = WTF (What Time Frisco) _____________________
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12-03-2009 21:22
You missed the meeting, you lughead.
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12-03-2009 21:32
Yes, it's West Coast USA Pacific time. I believe in relationship to GMT that it is GMT - 8 hours. Yes. Handy for me, as I live in California. _____________________
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Butch Adzebills
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12-03-2009 22:09
It's not the time that stuffs me around, it's the day. Here, in delightfully warm and sunny, eastern Australia, we're currently 19hrs in front of SLT. It's not uncommon for me to attend a function, a day early.
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Peggy Paperdoll
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12-03-2009 22:12
It's not the time that stuffs me around, it's the day. Here, in delightfully warm and sunny, eastern Australia, we're currently 19hrs in front of SLT. It's not uncommon for me to attend a function, a day early. Oh, you're on the other side of that date line thing............somehow, depending on which direction you are going you can arrive before you left!! Yeah, that would stuff me too.............LOL. |