24 hour clock versus AM-PM

That sounds interesting, Jamie. Does your gadget adjust (counter-adjust) for region-specific Daylight Savings mandates?

I'm in the US and got used to a 24 hour clock years ago working with computer systems that ran that way. It would be nice to have the option to list SL time in the 24 hour clock mode. I'd use it in a heartbeat as I can translate it to 12 hour mode on the fly to deal with other users that don't think in 24 hour mode.

Remaining hooked to SL's homebase local time (Pacific) is fine with me though I'm in a location that does not do the daylight savings time thing and my local relation to SL time varies by an hour during different times of the year (keeping the times straight against other areas when you all play g-d with time took way longer than learning to use a 24hr clock seamlessly against std 12hr clock did).

I'd put votes up towards this as an option or a change. Definitely transactions should at least note am/pm if not be listed in 24hr mode.

Char

I think SL should implement time zones, and even Daylight Saving Time (but only in the sims that support it, and there has to be one 30 minute time zone like Newfoundland).

Sorry not that good at the programming so each of the hands have notecard to edit the time from GMT.

Makes more sense to you. The 24 hour clock isn't more "accurate", and would cause confusion for those not used to it (me, for instance).

The only fair way to resolve the question is to make it a choice for each user. You could have the 24 hour clock, and I could keep my outdated AM-PM time. That would be my vote.

After much consideration I would like to suggest that within SL we get more hours in a day, I propose a 42 hour day. I often find myself short on hours within a day and if we are going to change things, let's not confine our thinking to just what is already known. I also propose we designate time by color, we will need 42 distinct colors so at any given time of the day we will know exactly when that is. Of course yellow will be what is now currently 3 pm, and dark yellow would be what is now known as 3:45 the color gets darker as the shade moves through the hour. What color is 6 am for you?

Or maybe not, this would be a lot of work and I can't imagine the response to a change like this.

ROFL! Isn't there like...six SL days every twenty four hours anyway? (Taking into account accelerated days and nights.) Taking that into account, the SL clock should probably increment more at the speed of the GTA one. (A minute a second.)

This is regarding the changing of time zones, not the 12 - 24 conversion.

The main problem I see with everyone having different times is that instead of saying, "Meet me here at 4:00am/04:00 SLT" you'd have, "Meet me here at 6:00am/06:00." then they get there at THEIR 6:00 and they miss it entirely.
This gives SL one time to make everything easier to coordinate. SL events could change, but personal events would suck.

To address the comments of many here, it would be nice to have the option to switch between 24-hour and 12-hour format. I've seen some programs with built-in clocks where you just like click the clock to toggle formats. That's handy. I still think it's important to keep the time that it shows in server time though, because of events and all that. Plus, when scheduling meetups with other players, it's convenient to just say 'meet me at X server time' and there is no ambiguity about what timezone you're talking about.

I have many international friends, as well as USA friends in other time zones. I use the personal world clock web site to get a quick read of what time it is for all my friends. You can customize it to show just the cities you're interested in.

I've seen various little world clock programs for Mac and Windows, but I don't run any programs other than Yahoo Messenger and Firefox when I play SL.

Geez, I already have to deal with the confusion of adding 3 hours to everything in SL. Now you guys want to banish DST, go to GMT time, and adopt a 24 hour clock too?!?? For crying out loud, I'm going to need a damn slide ruler just to know when an event is scheduled!

768 is a highly significant number.

If you don't ALREADY need to reverse-engineer the daylight savings time adjustment to match your locale, apply your own DST adjustment (if any). and you find it easier to adjust +3 hrs from 12hr am/pm time than 24hr time, then you are one of the lucky ones. Many other people need a slide ruler, currently.

Myoukitsune - you are right about the personal event timing, if different people see different time on their SL clocks. Everyone should see the same time on their SL clocks. Its just a question of whether that time should be USA/PST (with DST) or UTC.

Damn! I've done that! Not fun!