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Organisers: Please consider using UTC timezone

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Zyem:
Guns of Icarus Online has a very international community though naturally, a large proportion are located in America. This means that most events are stated in EST time (as the organisers tend to be American).

This has caught at least 2 clans out on 2 separate occassions because the time was stated in EST but was really referring to current local time of the organiser.. which was EDT! So when the time was converted to the participants local time.. it was wrong by an hour. Cue last minute chaos as the event happens an hour before expected..

So, could event organisers please consider at least adding the UTC time to the event information, if not making it the primary way of stating the time? This way, it won't be silently affected by DST (the UTC time would explicitly change) and removes a lot of potential confusion and mistakes.

Thanks for you time! :)

Squash:
I massively agree with this, this is vitally important. Many a prearranged meeting has been confused due to time zone misunderstandings. I suggest event organizers use the following link when organizing matches.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

RearAdmiralZill:
+1

A few of my international members have asked me to do it for organizing just ourselves. Would be nice for organizers to add it too.

Alistair MacBain:
Sign.

Swallox:
The funny thing is: I set the time for the Cogs at 4pm EST due to it translating into that... But every time I think of when the Cogs are due to start, I forget the time in GMT. (Curse you DST!)

It really would be helpful to add multiple timezones into the mix... Preferably by someone who can handle them without wanting to punch holes in walls.

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