Changing SL Time to Est,cst,mount time?

I'm new to the forums and I would like to bust my writing cherry with a suggestion for the next update!

I was wondering if there was a way the dev's could make it so that if u live in a different time zone that you could change the SL time to your own time zone?

That would make it easier for DJ's like myself in game to know the time without having to calculate the time difference!

Do people know what I mean?

DJ Hawk

That would mean no one in sl could fix a time to meet or for an event.

That simply wouldn't work indeed. In RL, I have a job were I communicate with people in different time zones and there is nothing as difficult as schedule a simple meeting because everybody is always thinking about their time zone. One time zone is really the way to go.
Johnny

but why do they make it CST Standard time? Why not Est?

It's not CST, it's PST.

Because LL is in California.

Why do people need to see their local time in their SL client... when :
1) 99% of people running in a window, already have their local time on their taskbar.
2) Most people wear a watch, or have a clock on their desk, or have a mobile phone in their pocket they can check the time with.
3) Their computer, watch, phone... etc can be programmed with alarms if they're worried about missing something in RL due to spending so much time in SL.

Most important keyboard combination: CTRL-Shift-Y.

Force Sunshine Because when I am usually in SL it is always night.

(Sunrise to have as keyboard shortcut would be nice. To save them, it would actually make sense to cycle through them each time for example ctrl-shift-y is touched)

If any, please make it GMT

SL is PST, Linden Labs is located in PST, which converts -6 GMT.

That is all you need to know, learn your GMT, or timezone, done.

Changing the time in SL is going to lead to nothing but problems, events will be all over the map, keep SL times as it is, run SL windowed and you got Windows clock for your time. Easy. No reason at all to change the time in SL, none.

At the moment, it's not even PST. It's PDT, or UTC-7.
Welcome to the confusion.

And. remembering your GMT offset doesn't solve the problem because, starting this yeary, USA has its own DST start and end dates. GMT keeps the original ones. So your calculation will be wrong for 4 weeks of the year.

when we were in ActiveWorlds we used VRT time
Virtual Reality Time

http://www.geocities.com/westhollywood/8382/zone.htm
-LW

I think it would be a good idea to have changeable times for events and things - would make it easier - and could always turn it off.
I know on WoW people accidentally quote their own timezones from time to time anyway, so as to world announcements it wouldn't make much difference, but if things in like the search and the gametime would be dynamic.
Could always have a special time variable that automatically gets edited by the clients for scripts and whatnot.

How about a HUD clock with a timezone offset?

I modded the single-prim-clock to allow for a timezone offset a while back, and the clock on the Coonspiracy Store sign (see my Picks for the location) just to show "Coonspiracy Standard Time" (CST, local time in .la.us). I can set up a copiable version if there's interest, and you can poke that in your HUD. It's a freebie clock (the script's on the forums) so I won't charge for it.

GMT doesn't have Daylight Savings does it? I keep forgetting. :?



FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHY?
*Murders Bush*

-8 even...

Not exactly no... we do go to BST though which is GMT+1

or course, GMT is standard, it's british so it's correct
the rest of the world is not (including GB)