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Organisers: Please consider using UTC timezone

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Grayknight:
Coming from a team with several international players from at least four different time zones, UTC would be awesome.

Zyem:
..and now Muse have been bitten by this with PAX. They put the local time and the UTC offset. The wrong UTC offset.

I am signed up to start helping at 13:00 (UTC-8) + 8 = 21:00 UTC + 1 = 22:00 BST.
When I am actually supposed to turn up is at 13:00 (UTC-7) + 7 = 20:00 UTC + 1 = 21:00 BST.

When will people start listening to me?

Deltajugg:
http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

Zyem:

--- Quote from: Deltajugg on August 30, 2014, 03:45:08 pm ---http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

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This isn't entirely useful. For example, say an organiser says "The event will happen at 21:00 EST". Everyone then uses the above tool to convert EST to their local timezone.. and it still ends up being wrong.

Why?

1) They meant EST, but the program presumed EDT because DST is in effect (but not all EST locations observe EDT).
2) They actually meant EDT.
3) They meant EST.. Australia.

Far less mistakes happen when it goes:
Organiser: Known Local -> Common, Participant: Known Common -> Local
than when it goes:
Participant: Vague Local -> Local

And when organisers put both the local time and the UTC time, it is easy to check if they got it wrong.

Replaceable:
Lets do this yes please.  8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

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