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Main - AcmlmBoard II Software/Bug Report Forum - Complaint - Time Zones (1) |
CyclopsCaveman |
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I was registering and got to the part where I went to select my timezone and I personally don't like the massive amount of cities to select from. Could we switch to the simpler GMT -5 and etc, rather than use what we have now? ____________________ board2: board harder|KAFUKA - Got post?|Opera - Try it today! Lapfox Trax - Musical!|MSPaintAdventures - Groups of childern threaten the lives of entire worlds by playing the Sims. Trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls.|SonicRetro - Talk about the latest changes to that mole on Sonic's left buttcheek.|Valve Software - Description coming soon. |
Trelior |
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In all actuality, we tried that originally, but the server's time setting got really fucked up. |
CyclopsCaveman |
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Could we at least thin the number of place? I couldn't find any cities actually near where I live. It's just too much. ____________________ board2: board harder|KAFUKA - Got post?|Opera - Try it today! Lapfox Trax - Musical!|MSPaintAdventures - Groups of childern threaten the lives of entire worlds by playing the Sims. Trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls.|SonicRetro - Talk about the latest changes to that mole on Sonic's left buttcheek.|Valve Software - Description coming soon. |
Kiyoshi |
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HEY HEY HEY STAY OUTTA MAH SHED Level: 64 Posts: 37/1016 EXP: 2171329 Next: 42768 Since: 01-02-12 Last post: 4383 days Last view: 4354 days |
Posted by CyclopsCavemanSo many different implementations of DST around the world ____________________ I don't give a flying feather |
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GreyMaria |
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~< Outta here. |
Posted by Acmlm This is what DJBouche said he would do, except with offsets. I like this idea better. |
Ailure |
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Buzzy Beetle Red pandas and stuff Level: 43 Posts: 21/398 EXP: 532426 Next: 32620 Since: 01-01-12 Last post: 2485 days Last view: 687 days |
I think it's possible to look up timezones through user IP's though, which can be used for making it suggest and mark a timezone for you. That would help as well, even if it wouldn't be always accurate (I used to be on a IP reported as being within Netherlands ). ____________________ AIM: gamefreak1337, MSN: Emil_sim@spray.se, XMPP: ailure@xmpp.kafuka.org, YouTube
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DJ Bouche |
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Paragoomba Level: 19 Posts: 29/65 EXP: 35147 Next: 630 Since: 12-30-11 From: Sydney, Australia Last post: 4305 days Last view: 385 days |
Posted by Ailure Yeah, this would be neat actually, and a lot of places do it. And I am indeed thinking of doing what @GreyMaria mentioned, combined with Ailure's suggestion this should remove most of the friction. And indeed most of the intent for moving away from fixed offset timezones was to deal with DST transitions, and most systems (at least POSIX based) are using these timezone definitions as standard. I believe these also contain the transitions for strange little political things such as Samoa skipping December 31, 2011 and switching to the other side of the IDL. For the list, I will probably do both the offset and the current time. |
Scrydan |
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Scryforce - A place that still exists. Neat. Level: 86 Posts: 1130/2020 EXP: 5952124 Next: 189983 Since: 07-18-12 From: USA Last post: 771 days Last view: 753 days |
Bringing this back up again. I wholeheartedly agree that this system just doesn't work for me. Now my reasons are not just for the user end but the database end as well. Having 400+ rows for what could be a bit more simple seems outrageous to me. I think we could do this in a much easier way.
First of all, the main argument I've seen to keep this Time Zone system is DST. I think we could make this much easier for both the server and user. In config, we can set what times are expected to change DST for the server end. On the user end, we can do that as well. Then they just select their offset. Should you set the DST correctly, it will always update the offset correctly and the server will do the same. So with that said, I really want to make it "simpler" with offsets but options to allow the person to change it automatically so that it works for DST. Granted it may seem silly but I want to bring up anything we can use to overthrow Time Zones. hehe |
NightKev |
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Level: 29 Posts: 86/169 EXP: 143531 Next: 4354 Since: 08-17-12 Last post: 3786 days Last view: 3644 days |
Maybe the user could choose between setting "simple" or "precise" TZ offset where simple is a list of "GMT, GMT-1, ..." and precise is the same as the current list? |
GlitchMr |
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Goomba Level: 13 Posts: 18/27 EXP: 9193 Next: 1074 Since: 07-22-12 Last post: 3701 days Last view: 3701 days |
Exactly four places in the world have more than one timezone: US, Canada, Russia, and Australia (I was surprised when I've found that China has only one timezone). For places that aren't in that list, simple IP checking would be enough. |
NightKev |
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Level: 29 Posts: 90/169 EXP: 143531 Next: 4354 Since: 08-17-12 Last post: 3786 days Last view: 3644 days |
Whoa, wtf? I never knew timezones were THIS retarded... why aren't they just "straight" (or, well, as straight as you can be on a spherical object)? This is so inane. |
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Red Birdo RIP Fat Lesbian Level: 88 Posts: 936/2142 EXP: 6579045 Next: 71619 Since: 04-03-12 From: Seattle, USA Last post: 3454 days Last view: 3453 days |
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GreyMaria |
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~< Outta here. |
We ought to lay siege to the world's governments until timezones are finally equivalent to longitudinal meridians. |
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