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[xengk]

Seeing that players around the globe are accessing and playing this game, there often arise confusion regarding patch time and server live time.

Frequently due to not understand how timezone conversion works.
It would help to reduce the confusion by implementing a simply real time clock on the forum/site.

The clock will display the local time of the server.
Player from different time only need to read up the announcement to see the proposed maintenance time(eg: 9am PST), see the clock displaying 7am and know that there will be a patch in 2 hours time.

An example by competitor:
http://pwi.perfectworld.com/status

mock layout

[Durant Carlyle]

Anybody in this day and age should be able to do these kind of conversions very easily. I don't understand where any kind of confusion comes from.

Server time is Pacific time. That's UTC - 7. Everyone should be able to figure it out from there.

Edit: About the only confusion there might be is where the server farm is. It's in western Canada (Vancouver maybe? I forget.).

Note: As of 2AM on Sunday November 3rd, the servers will be at UTC - 8 due to Daylight Savings Time ending.

Edited by Durant Carlyle, 29 October 2013 - 01:35 PM.

[Naduk]

confusion comes from the inconsistency
taken directly from the latest news post we have several different times thrown at us

it was posted at
Oct 25, 2013 10:41 PM UTC
event starts at
25th October 2013 (no specified time)
event ends at
4th November 2013 (12:00AM PST)

i have seen them use just about every 3 letter combination following a time stamp for things they are posting
its likely not that bad when you only live a few hours away

i am UTC+10 so i am a full day infront of USA/Canada
my state does not do daylight savings but the most others in Australia do
i have no idea when or what states iniate daylight savings in other countries and nore do i care

the amount of information i need to process to figure out what time server time is and/or when an event is starting is just stupid
yes i can do it, but i should not have to........ every....... single ........time.....

[Durant Carlyle]

They would have only used two combos for their main schedule:

PDT = Pacific Daylight Time. Daylight Savings in effect. UTC - 7.
PST = Pacific Standard Time. Daylight Savings not in effect. UTC - 8.

Normally, I'm like you -- I couldn't care less about what time it is in some other country. But when it's for a game I like, it becomes very easy to find things out just once and remember them.

For the times I do care, I use this: Time Zone Map

[xengk]

Not every country uses the PST/PDT, most of us on east side of the globe uses GMT/UTC.
Sure the more mature of us can easily figure out what the time is across the globe, but why make players jump through hoops just to figure out a maintenance time?

Having the server clock will allow everyone to know at a glance.

inb4 someone QQ on the forum about why the server clock time doesn't match his/her local time.

[BumbleBee]

I actually just came into this forum to suggest this very thing.

A clock with official MWO Time (with no daylight savings adjustments) on the websites frontpage and possibly displayed at the top corner of the header in the forums would be a great addition. It gives groups of players a common standard clock to organise things by with themselves and each other, and people like myself who aren't American can easily keep track of things and not get things mixed up.

Its one of those simple little things that would just help so many out and help the different groups to better coordinate with one another.

[Kyle Polulak]

Ask an ye shall receive:

http://mwomercs.com/clock

[K o i l]

Kyle Polulak, on 31 October 2013 - 04:02 PM, said:

Ask an ye shall receive:

I'd like a Ferrari, Oculus Rift and MWO compatibility, a puppy, world peace, the ability to save profiles in UI 2.0, and a Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock, and this thing which tells time.

:: WINNING SMILE ::

Edited by K o i l, 31 October 2013 - 04:33 PM.

[Durant Carlyle]

Nice. Now there needs to be a VERY OBVIOUS link to the clock on the main web site menu bar, so that everybody can find it, even when drunk and/or suffering from lack of sleep from playing MW:O so much.

[bar10jim]

K o i l, on 31 October 2013 - 04:31 PM, said:

I'd like a Ferrari, Oculus Rift and MWO compatibility, a puppy, world peace, the ability to save profiles in UI 2.0, and a Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock, and this thing which tells time.

:: WINNING SMILE ::

You'll shoot your eye out, kid.

[xengk]

Kyle Polulak, on 31 October 2013 - 04:02 PM, said:

Ask an ye shall receive:

http://mwomercs.com/clock

Great! now it just need to be accessible on the forum UI.


Also, Game Time.
ISeeWhatYouDidThere

[Wieland]

Durant Carlyle, on 29 October 2013 - 01:20 PM, said:

Edit: About the only confusion there might be is where the server farm is. It's in western Canada (Vancouver maybe? I forget.).

Eastern Canada, Toronto.

[Kain]

Kyle Polulak, on 31 October 2013 - 04:02 PM, said:

Ask an ye shall receive:

http://mwomercs.com/clock

NICE !!!


also i would adjust the game time (make it 3048), to sync it up with the mw:o clan announement.

Edited by Kain, 01 November 2013 - 05:05 AM.

[Durant Carlyle]

Wieland, on 01 November 2013 - 04:21 AM, said:

Eastern Canada, Toronto.

Really? I thought it was near PGI, not near IGP. Oh well ... learn something new every day.

[Mishatron]

So, this website runs on a server with a slow clock? Kyle might want to take a look at that.

[Grim Kodiak]

Why not a countdown on the webside or game client like:

Maintanance in 02:10:23
or
New Event in 02:10:22
etc.

So no time zone confusion

[9erRed]

Greetings all,

The servers are located in Montreal, not Toronto. Although they (Toronto) still think they are the capital of Canada and the center of the World.

9erRed

[Koniving]

xengk, on 29 October 2013 - 11:49 AM, said:

Seeing that players around the globe are accessing and playing this game, there often arise confusion regarding patch time and server live time.

Frequently due to not understand how timezone conversion works.
It would help to reduce the confusion by implementing a simply real time clock on the forum/site.

The clock will display the local time of the server.
Player from different time only need to read up the announcement to see the proposed maintenance time(eg: 9am PST), see the clock displaying 7am and know that there will be a patch in 2 hours time.

An example by competitor:
http://pwi.perfectworld.com/status

mock layout

http://mwomercs.com/clock

Heh. I didn't see it posted in here I just read the first post and was like "Welp, here!"

[xengk]

Koniving, on 02 November 2013 - 12:42 PM, said:

http://mwomercs.com/clock

Heh. I didn't see it posted in here I just read the first post and was like "Welp, here!"

Sure is nice to have a feature approved and implemented in 48 hours after suggested.

[BillTheTurnip]

xengk, on 03 November 2013 - 09:37 AM, said:

Sure is nice to have a feature approved and implemented in 48 hours after suggested.

Edited by BillTheTurnip, 04 November 2013 - 09:56 AM.