What time is that???

I'm an Aussie, sometimes I put on a show at my pub and tell people what time it's on...
In local time, if a local is playing... then I must convert this to SLT, and as we're ahead
one day, I have to tell people that it's on the day before the day that we have it, and some
want to know what time that will be in New York and how the heck do I know, so I grab the
palm T|X with the palmaryclock in it and start tapping away, poking out my tongue, making
sure I have DST in my mind.... ARRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!.

Look, SLT means *nothing* to me, Pardon the expression, I'm not a yank.
Aussie time means diddly squat to my US mates.

What I'm thinking is that you should kill SLT, forget it exists.
It only confuses *everyone*

Everyone uses local time from now on just like windowsXP etc uses.

You have a small calender which lets you set a time and date for an event.

You then write a notecard and drop an LM into it.

SL then automatically sends a group notice out
with the time and date in the users own *local time*.

Nobody is confused anymore!

Sensible, right?

The calender should send about three group notices out.

Say... a week before... a day before... and an hour before.

Even in a regular IM, the time *needs* to automatically translate to the other users
local time.

Wolfie!

HEAR HEAR! I'm also in Aussie, and I agree that something definitely needs to done about the time zone situation. All the conversions that are necessary can get very confusing very quickly. We shouldn't continue to base the time of a virtual world on a specific location just because that's where LL happens to be. SL is pretty much accessible globally isn't it, and LL often goes on about how they want diversity from other countries, yet when we get in there they force us to have to deal with their time zone. If we have to use anything as the base time wouldn't it make sense to use GMT? Either that or lets just scrap the real world time entirely, make some new "metaverse" time system, then make sure the tools exist in world to make conversions trivial/automatic.

In the meantime you may find this site useful...
http://www.timeanddate.com/

(not-quite-on-topic)

All I can say is thankfully no one has to deal with folks connecting from Mars yet.

At least we can all more-or-less agree on the concept of 'hours' and how long a day is.

No so for future Martians...

(I have no association with this link other than amused curiosity... )

http://pweb.jps.net/~gangale2/survey/InfoDay1.htm

A friend bought up the GMT thing, and that wouldn't be any more helpful as the hours would
just be different and we'd be tapping our calculators again.

Global time isn't going to work, remember Swatch Internet Time?
Swatch added it to their watches and you can download a clock with uses it and add it to
your desktop... but you can't relate to it.

You know a tv show goes for 30mins for instance, you know what 30mins feels like...
Swatches "Beats" were too alien, the concept failed to gain acceptance.

Using the principle of KISS [Keep it simple, stupid!] we must use normal, everyday time,
which everyone has used since they were able to tell the time.

They MUST give up this SLT Nonsense.

When writing a group notice, we could hit a date button, select the time and day of the event and bingo, when it arrives on the users computer, the viewer has already changed the date and time to their local time.

No more missed functions, no more upset people who would have come to your event
but missed it because they miscalculated [or the host miscalculated] the event.

I put a poster up in my pub recently, it had about seven different times listed on it just
so that people didn't get confused... and they still did.

The current situation is horrid.

Please Mr. Linden, give us OUR time back.

Wolfie!