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[Dirk Le Daring]

I have not seen this as a topic, that I can remember.

There is a clock for MWO. https://mwomercs.com/clock

I think this should be a pinned topic for the recruits section, community warfare and barracks. Or maybe just pin the clock page to those threads.

I think it may help better coordination for the players in various timezones. And I would suggest a clock in-game too. Just a little dropdown thingo. Could be handy.

Edit: added reference for timezones.

Edited by Dirk Le Daring, 06 July 2015 - 03:53 PM.

[Scout Derek]

Dirk Le Daring, on 03 July 2015 - 06:28 PM, said:

I have not seen this as a topic, that I can remember.

There is a clock for MWO. https://mwomercs.com/clock

I think this should be a pinned topic for the recruits section, community warfare and barracks. Or maybe just pin the clock page to those threads.

I think it may help better coordination for the players. And I would suggest a clock in-game too. Just a little dropdown thingo. Could be handy.

Yeah, plus they said it's 3052; It still says 3050

[Dirk Le Daring]

Scout Derek, on 03 July 2015 - 06:32 PM, said:

Yeah, plus they said it's 3052; It still says 3050

Odd, that.


But seriously, nobody thinks this may help ?

[Mcgral18]

Dirk Le Daring, on 06 July 2015 - 03:09 PM, said:

Odd, that.


But seriously, nobody thinks this may help ?

Until they update it, it can only do more harm than good.

[Trev Firestorm]

The clock should have it track CW phases and be part of the nav bar up top the site.

[Dirk Le Daring]

Mcgral18, on 06 July 2015 - 03:15 PM, said:

Until they update it, it can only do more harm than good.

The year hardly matters, but should be an easy fix.

Trev Firestorm, on 06 July 2015 - 03:21 PM, said:

The clock should have it track CW phases and be part of the nav bar up top the site.

Good idea. May be better than inside any of the forum sections.

[stjobe]

Scout Derek, on 03 July 2015 - 06:32 PM, said:

Yeah, plus they said it's 3052; It still says 3050

It was also stuck on 3049 for about two years...

I wouldn't pay much heed to that clock.

[Dirk Le Daring]

stjobe, on 06 July 2015 - 03:38 PM, said:

It was also stuck on 3049 for about two years...

I wouldn't pay much heed to that clock.

The year is unimportant.

The time zones are the important part.

[stjobe]

Dirk Le Daring, on 06 July 2015 - 03:45 PM, said:

The year is unimportant.

The time zones are the important part.

Ah, gotcha. Maybe you should have mentioned that in your OP.

[Dirk Le Daring]

stjobe, on 06 July 2015 - 03:51 PM, said:

Ah, gotcha. Maybe you should have mentioned that in your OP.

Good point. Done.

[Alistair Winter]

For the life of me, I cannot understand how so many websites on the internet refer to future events with specific times and dates without a god damned countdown timer. My Geocities website had a god damned countdown timer in 1997. Why aren't they used more on the internet?

Instead, you'll see stuff like "Watch our live event at 6:30 PM Pacific time, 9:30 PM CET [Central time], 18:30 PM TRY [Transylvanian time], 33:50 AM SRL [Secret soviet Lunar base time]"

Give me a damned countdown timer! Don't make me google all your stupid timezones and make me do math to translate them to Norwegian time! Time is of the essence, I have things to do and internet videos of cats to watch!

And what the hell is AM / PM anyway? I have to google that every time as well. Just get with the program, America. There's 24 hours in a day!

Edited by Alistair Winter, 06 July 2015 - 04:03 PM.

[Dirk Le Daring]

Alistair Winter, on 06 July 2015 - 04:01 PM, said:

33:50 AM SRL [Secret soviet Lunar base time

Thanks for the laugh.


A timer for countdown to events is a good idea, and I never understood why there is not one.

[stjobe]

Alistair Winter, on 06 July 2015 - 04:01 PM, said:

For the life of me, I cannot understand how so many websites on the internet refer to future events with specific times and dates without a god damned countdown timer. My Geocities website had a god damned countdown timer in 1997. Why aren't they used more on the internet?

Instead, you'll see stuff like "Watch our live event at 6:30 PM Pacific time, 9:30 PM CET [Central time], 18:30 PM TRY [Transylvanian time], 33:50 AM SRL [Secret soviet Lunar base time]"

Give me a damned countdown timer! Don't make me google all your stupid timezones and make me do math to translate them to Norwegian time! Time is of the essence, I have things to do and internet videos of cats to watch!

I always found it fascinating when the dev/trained web monkey that posts the time can't even be arsed to translate it into a few time zones but pays no heed to the fact that by not spending that time he forces tens of thousands or more people to each spend that time.

The accumulated time wasted looking up time-zones for online game events and patches must be stretching over thousands of years by now.

Alistair Winter, on 06 July 2015 - 04:01 PM, said:

And what the hell is AM / PM anyway? I have to google that every time as well. Just get with the program, America. There's 24 hours in a day!

AM = "ante meridiem" = before noon, PM = "post meridiem" = after noon. It's Latin

But yes, 12-hour time should be expunged. Along with Imperial measurements.

[Alistair Winter]

stjobe, on 06 July 2015 - 04:10 PM, said:

AM = "ante meridiem" = before noon, PM = "post meridiem" = after noon. It's Latin

I've looked it up so many times.

"Hmm, what did the M stand for in AM/ PM? Was it.... mmmmidnight? Better google it."

[Deathlike]

stjobe, on 06 July 2015 - 03:38 PM, said:

It was also stuck on 3049 for about two years...

I wouldn't pay much heed to that clock.

[Alistair Winter]

Deathlike, on 06 July 2015 - 04:17 PM, said:

Second reference to Transylvania in this thread

[masCh]

These 4 clocks could be integrated into the website, to the front page of mwomercs.com, analog mode (game time biggest, other zones smaller around it).

[Karmen Baric]

Alistair Winter, on 06 July 2015 - 04:01 PM, said:

For the life of me, I cannot understand how so many websites on the internet refer to future events with specific times and dates without a god damned countdown timer. My Geocities website had a god damned countdown timer in 1997. Why aren't they used more on the internet?

Instead, you'll see stuff like "Watch our live event at 6:30 PM Pacific time, 9:30 PM CET [Central time], 18:30 PM TRY [Transylvanian time], 33:50 AM SRL [Secret soviet Lunar base time]"

Give me a damned countdown timer! Don't make me google all your stupid timezones and make me do math to translate them to Norwegian time! Time is of the essence, I have things to do and internet videos of cats to watch!

And what the hell is AM / PM anyway? I have to google that every time as well. Just get with the program, America. There's 24 hours in a day!

This, yes this.