Since not all of us live in the USA

It would be nice if besides the time that is put on the Second Life Opening Screen you also put the date.

In Example:

GRID STATUS: ONLINE
Second Life Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007
Second Life Time: 10:53 pm PST
Logged in Last ...
etc..

For some of us most the time its the 23rd

Like at the time of this post its Tues 23 Jan at 7:58PM

Thanks

And one should be able to change that annoying AM/PM format to 24 hours format. It always takes me almost a minute to convert it to 24/h, than substract the amount of hours to the timezone I'm in.

You can think of Linden Standard Time as GMT only off by -8 hours; except of course, when they are using Linden Daylight Time (GMT-7) which they also call LST.

Got it?

I would much rather be able to enter a time offset in my client prefs, so other people can see what time it is for me. it would also be very cool to be able to set a land parcel to a time zone, so that in my parcle, for example, it's dark when GMT is dark...

Except that days are only 4 hours long in-world...

Private island owners already do have the ability to change the sun position. I'd be against mainlaind parcel owners to have the same ability. It would certainly be disorienting to be flying across mainland sims and the sun magically jump around.

It simplifies things (socially and technically) to have SL be in a single time format. It may not be convenient but if you have a meeting at 3PM SL time, there is no question to when that actually is. In conversation you can say 3PM SL time and know that there will be no misunderstanding as to what SL time means.

Why not just make SL time equal to GMT+0? After all, we all know what timezone we live in (GMT plus or minus X hours), and if SL time was GMT+0, it'd make timezone conversions easier for all.

Because the creators and operators live on GMT-8/GMT-7, thus for them it is the center of the world.

Who says Americans are provincial and or imperialist?

/signed an American who tries not to be provincial/

As far as I'm concerned the PST is just fine, but showing the actual date would be good, so when they say "Town Hall Meeting 3PM 16 Jan 2007" (example) and I look at the SL Login Screen I don't show up a day late...

Cheers

The Lindens aren't Americans, they are Californians. Completely different animal

Not only are they Californians, they are San Franciscans, a special breed apart from all others, caught in a time-space warp between 1967 and the future.

lee

Ain't that the truth.
*Born and raised So-Cal*
(That's "Southern California" to the rest of you).

After having arrived at a number of events a day early, the addition of day and date would be nice. Being in Australia, 17hrs ahead of SL time, it does get confusing.

Yes, sheer frustralion.

Melbourne, Australia here.

Kill SLT, forget GMT... use local time, nobody wants to sit and scratch something
down with a pad and pencil adding and subtracting.

I did enough math at school, and when I went out into the big wide world
I sought to do as little math as humanly possible.

Nobody wakes up at four in the morning, stares at the digital clock,
turns the light on and tries to add or subtract from GMT to see whether it's
four am or not.

my clock in windowas right now says 9:20pm [Monday], not 2:20pm SLT [Sunday]
and I don't have to use a calculator... bliss!

Wolfie! <- Mathematics hater.

Wolfie, problem with that is most communities in SL are split across time zones, and so if we go down that road, we'd still have to do the maths, except now this time you'd have to doubel check which timezone the other guy is talking about as well as teh conversion itself. It's a sucky timezone to standardise on, but it's much better than everyone standardising on their personal local time.

Ive purchased one of those el-cheapo desk clocks.... and have set the time to linden time..... my other desk clock is one of those multi timezone clocks

I use a free widget from the Yahoo! Widget Engine called "World Clock Pro." You can make as many little clocks on your Windows desktop as you want, each one for a different city, and since they change color for day, sunset or night, they are quite pretty. By lining them up in a row starting with Melbourne time at the right, and ending with Honolulu time at the left, I get an impression of what time it is for most anybody in just a glance.

Right now I only have three up.. Melbourne, London and Houston.. and my tired brain can figure the minus two for San Francisco.

It's been a huge help in running a group with members in many time zones.

I have had to be careful to turn it off when I am actually in SL, though, I'm careful of resources that way.

It is in the USA. Just so you know though, I am in the Linden time zone and still have to count on my fingers so I know what time my friends are in.. When they want me to meet them. They never speak in Linden time zone, they only speak in their own. It doesn't matter if I am blonde or not, all of these time zones really screw me up. I wish everyone would just say, see you in 5 hours and not speak in their time zone.


The really strange thing though is we live and work in their time zone, not in Lindens's. I am up all night just to be with my friends. A real day time life I no longer have. I really don't care either. All I want is to be with my baby.

I agree on both adding the date, and by allowing to customize time format to avoid am/pm, which is confusing a lot of people outside US.

Apart from adding date and allowing 24h format too, I have a proposal: when a client log in, it knows which is the local system date and time. If that information would be used to show close to the logged friends name the timezone difference, it would be simpler to know if I have to say to a friend of mine "good morning" or "good evening". I would suggest to do that at log in, since a friend could be on a business or vacation trip and be in a timezone different from the domestic one.