windows players only(this record blue launch is canceled)

[calculator plz]

I dunno but am gonna propose to marry The MurderousDUck

 

[david smith]

@Agent_L ,@ItsRalphy ,@Phil G ,@Airport Arne , @Mike47 ,@RavenENTP ,@calculator plz ,@TheMurderousDUck ,how about 18:00 hrs which is 6pm on july 11 th start time and stays open for 24 hours I will allow for minor point diffrences in the 140 point start, I'm also allowing multple accounts with a minium 30 points each

 

[david smith]

@Agent_L ,@ItsRalphy ,@Phil G ,@Airport Arne , @Mike47 ,@RavenENTP ,@calculator plz ,@TheMurderousDUck ,how about 18:00 hrs which is 6pm on july 11 th start time and stays open for 24 hours I will allow for minor point diffrences in the 140 point start, I'm also allowing multple accounts with a minium 30 points each

the launch will be started by gameradar2

 

[ItsRalphy]

Sounds ok - mot sure what time that is English time, but of open 24 hours that will work regardless.

 

[Airport Arne]

@Agent_L ,@ItsRalphy ,@Phil G ,@Airport Arne , @Mike47 ,@RavenENTP ,@calculator plz ,@TheMurderousDUck ,how about 18:00 hrs which is 6pm on july 11 th start time and stays open for 24 hours I will allow for minor point diffrences in the 140 point start, I'm also allowing multple accounts with a minium 30 points each

So, next Monday.
What time zone are you talking about (which major city is close to you?)

 

[calculator plz]

Cool its a date, plz, can u set a reminder? Meanwhile i'll Be getting ready An gonna get Me that laubchpad
Im confident

 

[Mike47]

@Agent_L ,@ItsRalphy ,@Phil G ,@Airport Arne , @Mike47 ,@RavenENTP ,@calculator plz ,@TheMurderousDUck ,how about 18:00 hrs which is 6pm on july 11 th start time and stays open for 24 hours I will allow for minor point diffrences in the 140 point start, I'm also allowing multple accounts with a minium 30 points each

If you are in Michigan then I believe you are 5hrs behind UK time so 11pm here. (not sure about British Summer Time though)
Anyway if I don't catch it Monday night should be able to join Tuesday morning.

 

[david smith]

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refer to chart above because I find it the easyist to tell time all over the world. @Mike47 ,@ItsRalphy, @calculator plz, @Airport Arne, @Phil G , @TheMurderousDUck , @RavenENTP , @Agent_L

 

[Agent_L]

refer to chart above because I find it the easyist to tell time all over the world.

Even if you use 24h format, 13:00 in Moscow is 3:00 in Los Angeles. 24h format helps only if you're dealing with people in same timezone, not all over the world.

 

[david smith]

Even if you use 24h format, 13:00 in Moscow is 3:00 in Los Angeles. 24h format helps only if you're dealing with people in same timezone, not all over the world.

The world is divided into basically 24 time zones. For easy reference in communications, a letter of the alphabet has been assigned to each time zone. The "clock" at Greenwich, England is used as the standard clock for international reference of time in communications, military, aviation, maritime and other activities that cross time zones. The letter designator for this clock is Z.

Times written in military time (24 hour format) are four digits, such as, 1830Z (6:30 pm) with the Zulu suffix. Note that the phonetic alphabet is used for the letter Z (Zulu). This time is usually referred to as Zulu Time because of the letter assigned to this time zone. Its official name is Coordinated Universal Time or UTC. This time zone had previously been called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) but was replaced with UTC in 1972 as the official world time standard changed. While GMT is based on Earth's rotation and celestial measurements, UTC is a based on cesium-beam atomic clocks. The two clocks are rarely more than a second apart as leap seconds are applied to UTC.

 

[RavenENTP]

Time time time , GMT maybe UTC those are same for everybody
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/gmt

 

[RavenENTP]

plan one GMT/UTC say it here and i will be there

 

[Agent_L]

The world is divided into basically 24 time zones. For easy reference in communications, a letter of the alphabet has been assigned to each time zone. The "clock" at Greenwich, England is used as the standard clock for international reference of time in communications, military, aviation, maritime and other activities that cross time zones. The letter designator for this clock is Z.

Times written in military time (24 hour format) are four digits, such as, 1830Z (6:30 pm) with the Zulu suffix. Note that the phonetic alphabet is used for the letter Z (Zulu). This time is usually referred to as Zulu Time because of the letter assigned to this time zone. Its official name is Coordinated Universal Time or UTC. This time zone had previously been called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) but was replaced with UTC in 1972 as the official world time standard changed. While GMT is based on Earth's rotation and celestial measurements, UTC is a based on cesium-beam atomic clocks. The two clocks are rarely more than a second apart as leap seconds are applied to UTC.

You've mixed up several unrelated issues:
1) 12/24 hour format
2) time zones
3) military writing conventions
4) difference between GMT and UTC
5) current timezone (which changes twice a year)
6) converting one into another

There are much, much more time zones than just 24. There are places with UTC offset that's not full hour, but has30 or 15 minute precision. Eg India time is UTC+5h30m.

Military time zones are completely unknown to public. Some civilians know that "zulu" means "UTC", but what the hell "alpha" or "romeo" time zone is? What code name is Moscow Time? What code name is Los Angeles time?
This idea only makes sense for military people. Everyone else just say "6:00am in Los Angeles" or "23:59 Moscow time" and it is unambiguous already.



Now, if what we want is ease of conversion then neither "zulu" nor "place" is of big help, because it requires look up in what timezone that place is in a given moment. In that case, most helpful is stating the offset from UTC. Instead of LA one would say "-8" and instead of Moscow "+3" and only this makes the calculations possible without any reference tables. And that's pretty much ISO 8601: 2016-07-05T14:32:30+00:00 - date, time, and UTC offset.

As I already said elsewhere, I think that Moscow time is our best denominator, first because game events happen in that zone, and secondly because those sneaky Russians don't play with summer time so it's as solid as UTC.

 

[Airport Arne]

@Agent_L come on, how many Russian players are really here?! Most here are UK/central Europe or US based.

I would propose 20:00hr GMT (i.e. currently 22:00 Central Europe and 15:00hr US central) @david smith

 

[david smith]

@Agent_L come on, how many Russian players are really here?! Most here are UK/central Europe or US based.

I would propose 20:00hr GMT (i.e. currently 22:00 Central Europe and 15:00hr US central) @david smith

I'm in michigan is eastern time, so it would be 16:00= 4pm

 

[david smith]

This Launch is now canceled, due to time zone issues
@Mike47 ,@ItsRalphy, @calculator plz, @Airport Arne, @Phil G , @TheMurderousDUck , @RavenENTP , @Agent_L

 

[ItsRalphy]

That's a shame - if its open for 24 hours, the time zones are irrelevant?

 

[rocky]

That's a shame - if its open for 24 hours, the time zones are irrelevant?

I agree, if @david smith wants to go for a record, all the players have to put very small points and like you said, the launch will be open long enough so the different time zones will be able to join

 

[Airport Arne]

yeah right.
@david smith
just start a launch on Sunday 9pm your time. Every one east of you (aka Europe) will join at their Monday morning or afternoon and everyone west of you has still the Sunday evening and Monday morning.
pretty easy game

 

[PeterNL]

You've mixed up several unrelated issues:
1) 12/24 hour format
2) time zones
3) military writing conventions
4) difference between GMT and UTC
5) current timezone (which changes twice a year)
6) converting one into another

There are much, much more time zones than just 24. There are places with UTC offset that's not full hour, but has30 or 15 minute precision. Eg India time is UTC+5h30m.

Military time zones are completely unknown to public. Some civilians know that "zulu" means "UTC", but what the hell "alpha" or "romeo" time zone is? What code name is Moscow Time? What code name is Los Angeles time?
This idea only makes sense for military people. Everyone else just say "6:00am in Los Angeles" or "23:59 Moscow time" and it is unambiguous already.



Now, if what we want is ease of conversion then neither "zulu" nor "place" is of big help, because it requires look up in what timezone that place is in a given moment. In that case, most helpful is stating the offset from UTC. Instead of LA one would say "-8" and instead of Moscow "+3" and only this makes the calculations possible without any reference tables. And that's pretty much ISO 8601: 2016-07-05T14:32:30+00:00 - date, time, and UTC offset.

As I already said elsewhere, I think that Moscow time is our best denominator, first because game events happen in that zone, and secondly because those sneaky Russians don't play with summer time so it's as solid as UTC.

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