How do you figure out SL time?

when it`s time to pull and cash out

It's nice being in the Pacific Time Zone and thus coincident with SL time, but I still have to do math to figure out what time of day the RL people that control my various favorite SL people, are in. IMHO Swatch got it right with Swatch Beat Time. It would have had a chance if they'd set midnight to Greenwich rather than Berne.

In any case, the whole notion of switching back to standard time for the winter is plainly stupid. Farmers don't mind DST, they just don't like having to change. Same with commuters and schoolbus drivers. I'd much prefer the benefit of knowing for sure what time it is everywhere, anytime. How did they do it before the internet, anyway?

Does anyone who has the intelligence to find the ON switch on a computer really have trouble coping with the time?

Seriously, the first time you log into SL you can compare the difference between your time and SLT, and just remember the adjustment. Certainly no harder than dealing with 24 hour clocks. The only tricky bit is when the US moves its clocks forwards or back on a different date to the place where you are. I'm usually 8 hours ahead, but for about 2 weeks in the spring it was 7 because Pacific time moved forwards earlier than the UK, but even that wasn't exactly hard.

Are you kidding! lol, Head to Clockwerks in Sabnock for the best clocks in SL. All clocks can bet set to any time zone

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sabnock/178/16/44/?x=150&y=150&title=ClockWerks&msg=ClockWerks%20SL%27s%20finest%20clocks

not true.. some timezones are off GMT by 24 or 30 minutes.. when it's the top of the hour, it's not the top of the hour everywhere. I learned this while researching for clock making in SL. I was going to program timezones, but after seeing so many, and various times, I just made my clocks like RL clocks, that can be set to any time.

Daylight savings in SL? Nnooooo! It'll fade the prim curtains and confuse the virtual cows........
I would really like to see a day/date up there too, being 18hours ahead gets dam confusing, keep missing events by day before or afterwards.

with flags, flashlights and smoke

Timezones existed before the internet ya know? Far enough back, timezones were literally the area of where you stood! When transport became a little faster than mule something had to be done for standardisation so the lines of longitude were implemented to plot one hour shifts.

Oh, and the reason for adjustments stem back to I believe among other things, safety of children going to or from school in the dark. In WWII UK had a temporary Double Summer Time to aid industry.

Point taken. Never thought of it that way, but correct you are.

Hey, it rains more in Sydney, Australia than it does in London, England. Granted, the Lake District is wetter than either but it probably wouldn't be called the Lake District if it didn't.

I've never quite understood the bad press we get with regard the weather. Granted, the rain is a bit unpredictable but our summers ain't cold by any stretch of the imagination (temps usually peaks around 34/35C July/August) and our winters aren't that cold either. A mild climate is easy to live with if you're not into extremes.

Hello Johan, I didn't know about differences today at less than an hour but rereading my post I was only pointing out that the Greenwich meridian was the reference point.


and that's why down in Dorset we merely have a Puddletown

and an erratum: earlier I attribute/accused Colette of asking if British Summer was an oxymoron when it was of course Oryx. I apologise to you both xx.