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Vistrix Ferocia
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Posted - 2006.07.08 11:02:00 -
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Edited by: Vistrix Ferocia on 08/07/2006 11:02:43
I live in the UK and the Eve clock is always wrong. It should be set to GMT right?
the time is now 12:00GMT but the Eve Online clock is 11:00GMT.
Whats up with that?
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Cerys Magente
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Posted - 2006.07.08 11:04:00 -
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British Summertime, or Daylight Savings Time, is one hour ahead of GMT.
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Tedeski
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Posted - 2006.07.08 11:04:00 -
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The UK is running at BST - British Summer Time. So we're an hour ahead of GMT.
When the clocks go back later in the year we'll be in sync again.
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mergblue
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Posted - 2006.07.08 11:04:00 -
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Daylight savings time.
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Hermia
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Posted - 2006.07.08 11:05:00 -
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blame the farmers!
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Tomic
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Posted - 2006.07.08 11:05:00 -
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Yea, atm UK is on BST which is GMT+1, eve is always on GMT so in the summer it is wrong for UK residents.
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HippoKing
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Posted - 2006.07.08 11:05:00 -
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We aren't running GMT in britain atm 
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Vistrix Ferocia
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Posted - 2006.07.08 11:06:00 -
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Edited by: Vistrix Ferocia on 08/07/2006 11:06:48
Ah...of course lol
So Eve Online servers have Daylight Savings Time turned off? Thats not helping anyone.
I assumed I could log on right now 
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Raem Civrie
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Posted - 2006.07.08 11:07:00 -
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EVE is Icelandic time, which is always just raw GMT (no daylight savings), not UK nerftime
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Drizit
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Posted - 2006.07.08 11:19:00 -
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 Originally by: Hermia
blame the farmers!
The farmers have denied this, they say it's so the kids come home from school in daylight. The fact that most farmers are also local councillors is irrelevant though
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HippoKing
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Posted - 2006.07.08 11:23:00 -
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Originally by: Vistrix Ferocia
So Eve Online servers have Daylight Savings Time turned off? Thats not helping anyone.
I assumed I could log on right now
Its helping everyone who maybe isn't in Britain so they don't have to base their lives around the time we run on
Not to mention that CCP (Icelandic) don't run on British time. Before anyone mentions that the servers are in Britain, I know, but they don't maintain themselves there
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Amthrianius
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Posted - 2006.07.08 11:28:00 -
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Edited by: Amthrianius on 08/07/2006 11:29:19
wikipedia ftw
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framolia
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Posted - 2006.07.08 11:44:00 -
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Get Tony Blair to get rid of BST!!
I hate changing the clocks anyhow, so what it will be darker earlier in the summer months not as we get plenty of day light at night in winter also, no biggy is it.
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Foxyoneill
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Posted - 2006.07.08 11:45:00 -
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Its 5 O'Clock somewhere!
*Opens a beer*
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madaluap
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Posted - 2006.07.08 11:51:00 -
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Originally by: framolia
Get Tony Blair to get rid of BST!!
I hate changing the clocks anyhow, so what it will be darker earlier in the summer months not as we get plenty of day light at night in winter also, no biggy is it.
You have any idea how much electricity is saved, really is a lot. I have no numbers for UK though...
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Nee'kita Frist
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Posted - 2006.07.08 12:02:00 -
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Originally by: madaluap
You have any idea how much electricity is saved, really is a lot. I have no numbers for UK though...
let us also not forget the more working hours we have.
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2006.07.08 12:17:00 -
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There's no daylight savings time in space
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Andrue
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Posted - 2006.07.08 12:20:00 -
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Originally by: Vistrix Ferocia
Edited by: Vistrix Ferocia on 08/07/2006 11:06:48
Ah...of course lol
So Eve Online servers have Daylight Savings Time turned off? Thats not helping anyone.
I assumed I could log on right now
Welcome to the modern world.
If you think about it a bit more you'll realise that it helps everyone. It means that everyone playing the game gets to see the same time and arranging meetings and events is just a matter of using game time. If the clock showed local time everyone would keep having to translate and convert depending where they all lived.
Computers all around the world do the same thing. Even the computer you are using to read this message is running according to UTC/GMT. It's just that when it has to interact with you personally it knows how to pretend otherwise.
If you want to know the local time get a clock. If you want to work in an international community you should learn to put aside your own peculiar local culture and preferences.
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Woopie
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Posted - 2006.07.08 12:25:00 -
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Originally by: Wikipedia
Iceland
With Iceland observing UTC all year round despite being at a longitude which would indicate UTC-1, the country may be said to be on continuous DST. Polar or near-polar locations such as Iceland often opt out, as summer in these locations usually brings nearly uninterrupted daylight.
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Baldour Ngarr
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Posted - 2006.07.08 13:28:00 -
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Originally by: Nee'kita Frist
Originally by: madaluap
You have any idea how much electricity is saved, really is a lot. I have no numbers for UK though...
let us also not forget the more working hours we have.
Both garbage. We have exactly the same amount of daylight, whether it's from 6am till 10pm, 5am till 9pm, or 1pm until silly o'clock. Moving the time zone around does NOT increase the amount of daylight.
Stopping people from being goddam lazy and not getting up early enough, saves electricity. There's got to be a more efficient way of doing that than farting about with the clocks twice every year. Just get up at 6am instead of 8am, for crying out loud.
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El Berto
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Posted - 2006.07.08 13:40:00 -
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Originally by: Baldour Ngarr
Originally by: Nee'kita Frist
Originally by: madaluap
You have any idea how much electricity is saved, really is a lot. I have no numbers for UK though...
let us also not forget the more working hours we have.
Both garbage. We have exactly the same amount of daylight, whether it's from 6am till 10pm, 5am till 9pm, or 1pm until silly o'clock. Moving the time zone around does NOT increase the amount of daylight.
Stopping people from being goddam lazy and not getting up early enough, saves electricity. There's got to be a more efficient way of doing that than farting about with the clocks twice every year. Just get up at 6am instead of 8am, for crying out loud.
What... is... 6am?
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Viktor Fyretracker
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Posted - 2006.07.08 14:08:00 -
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Farmers dont need Daylight Savings anymore the combines/tractors have headlights and are GPS guided. i seriously saw this thing on historychannel once where the farmer said he was just there to keep an eye on things, the combine drove itself based on Satellites.
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Victor Valka
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Posted - 2006.07.08 14:13:00 -
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Originally by: Foxyoneill
Its 5 O'Clock somewhere!
*Opens a beer*
In this whole thread, this is the only relevent post.
*opens a long drink*
Cheers!
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Traellium
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Posted - 2006.07.08 14:19:00 -
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Edited by: Traellium on 08/07/2006 14:18:47
Stack on top of all that the issues when north america changes the months in which daylight savings is going to be active (think it starts in spring of 2008), staying with plain old GMT works fine for me.
If they also changed for daylight savings, but not also the extra month in spring and fall, there would be 4 times per year that the gmt time to ours is different, instead of twice like it is now.
I think all mmorpg's should stay in GMT.
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Maj Woodcock
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Posted - 2006.07.08 14:55:00 -
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Edited by: Maj Woodcock on 08/07/2006 14:56:01
TG I live in Arizona. No "day light savings" here. The last thing we need is more "day ligth".
Just need to figure out what the rest of the country is doing. Some time we are the same time as Denver some times were are an hour behind.
Where's my FACE!!
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Novarei
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Posted - 2006.07.08 15:03:00 -
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bst should be abolished
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Avon
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Posted - 2006.07.08 15:12:00 -
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Daylight savings would be more useful if you could save it until you really need it .. like at night, or on rainy days, or something.
Never understood why the sun comes out in the day anyway - it would be better to come out at night to stop it being dark, daytime is light anyway.
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madaluap
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Posted - 2006.07.08 15:27:00 -
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Originally by: Baldour Ngarr
Originally by: Nee'kita Frist
Originally by: madaluap
You have any idea how much electricity is saved, really is a lot. I have no numbers for UK though...
let us also not forget the more working hours we have.
Both garbage. We have exactly the same amount of daylight, whether it's from 6am till 10pm, 5am till 9pm, or 1pm until silly o'clock. Moving the time zone around does NOT increase the amount of daylight.
Stopping people from being goddam lazy and not getting up early enough, saves electricity. There's got to be a more efficient way of doing that than farting about with the clocks twice every year. Just get up at 6am instead of 8am, for crying out loud.
Thats even more garbage
Today i got up around 2 PM, THATS electricity saving:
1. no need for breakfast
2. no headache from last night
3. no need for electricity for dualscreen-PC (and other stuff offcourse)
And people need 1 hour less electricity in the evening...
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F'nog
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Posted - 2006.07.08 15:32:00 -
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3 months in (or is it 4) and people are still having problems with this...
Originally by: Panzer Goddess
I podded wrangler, and all I got was this lousy forumban.
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Exiled One
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Posted - 2006.07.08 15:47:00 -
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THE SKY IS FALLING RIN FOR YER LIVES !!!!!!!!!!!
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sesanti
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Posted - 2006.07.08 16:31:00 -
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Originally by: Vistrix Ferocia
Edited by: Vistrix Ferocia on 08/07/2006 11:02:43
I live in the UK and the Eve clock is always wrong. It should be set to GMT right?
the time is now 12:00GMT but the Eve Online clock is 11:00GMT.
Whats up with that?
I live in Argentina and the clock is also wrong... Can CCP please change the ingame clock so that it matches my country's current time all the time? It's obviously wrong that the clock is not telling Argentina's time!
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Baldour Ngarr
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Posted - 2006.07.08 16:48:00 -
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Originally by: madaluap
Thats even more garbage
Today i got up around 2 PM, THATS electricity saving:
Only if you still go to bed before it gets dark.
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Chadawahee
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Posted - 2006.07.08 17:20:00 -
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i cant find "UK" or "iceland" on the map. care to tell me which region it is in ?
last time i checked the time in Kador was the same as in Domain.
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Kaladr
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Posted - 2006.07.08 18:21:00 -
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Originally by: Chadawahee
i cant find "UK" or "iceland" on the map. care to tell me which region it is in ?
last time i checked the time in Kador was the same as in Domain.
Unless its "All Hail the Emperor" week. Then things start getting a bit confusing.
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madaluap
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Posted - 2006.07.08 18:45:00 -
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Originally by: Baldour Ngarr
Originally by: madaluap
Thats even more garbage
Today i got up around 2 PM, THATS electricity saving:
Only if you still go to bed before it gets dark.
Who needs light when you got beer
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2006.07.08 18:47:00 -
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Originally by: Chadawahee
i cant find "UK" on the map
Isn't UK near Catch and Providence these days? Along with CVA, etc.
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Aion Amarra
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Posted - 2006.07.08 19:26:00 -
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Also think about the players on the southern hemisphere. They got the seasons upside down. Summer for northern hemisphere is winter for southern hemisphere. Hence, for the countries that do have daylight savings, DST is reversed.
If EVE Servers adhered to daylight savings in the UK, the servertime would shift two hours for the people with DST in the south, instead of servertime changing by one hour for everyone living in a country with DST.
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Nee'kita Frist
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Posted - 2006.07.08 20:20:00 -
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Quote:
Both garbage. We have exactly the same amount of daylight, whether it's from 6am till 10pm, 5am till 9pm, or 1pm until silly o'clock. Moving the time zone around does NOT increase the amount of daylight.
Stopping people from being goddam lazy and not getting up early enough, saves electricity. There's got to be a more efficient way of doing that than farting about with the clocks twice every year. Just get up at 6am instead of 8am, for crying out loud.
It increases the experaince of sun for people doing a business hour's cycle of work.
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Baldour Ngarr
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Posted - 2006.07.08 21:31:00 -
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Originally by: Nee'kita Frist
Quote:
Both garbage. We have exactly the same amount of daylight, whether it's from 6am till 10pm, 5am till 9pm, or 1pm until silly o'clock. Moving the time zone around does NOT increase the amount of daylight.
Stopping people from being goddam lazy and not getting up early enough, saves electricity. There's got to be a more efficient way of doing that than farting about with the clocks twice every year. Just get up at 6am instead of 8am, for crying out loud.
It increases the experaince of sun for people doing a business hour's cycle of work.
False. Business hours are 9am-5pm; in March, before the clocks go forward, it's daylight at 7am and stays light until well after 7pm.
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Freya Runestone
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Posted - 2006.07.08 21:58:00 -
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Originally by: madaluap
Originally by: framolia
Get Tony Blair to get rid of BST!!
I hate changing the clocks anyhow, so what it will be darker earlier in the summer months not as we get plenty of day light at night in winter also, no biggy is it.
You have any idea how much electricity is saved, really is a lot. I have no numbers for UK though...
I don't get how its saving electricity at all... there is 24 hours in a day, and your going to have to use light the same ammount no matter what the time is
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Dukath
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Posted - 2006.07.09 07:48:00 -
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I believe it saves electricity for the government. Namely schools and the bureaucraty since they don't need to turn on the lights as much anymore.
Of course the fact that people would need to use more electricity at home to compensate is irrelevant since only the government exists, nobody else :)
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