We will be bringing down Star Trek Online on Thursday January 5th from 7:00AM to 10:00AM PDT (1400 to 1700 UTC) in order to perform maintenance and apply a new patch.
Starting tomorrow (Thursday, January 5th), anyone with a lapsed subscription to Star Trek Online will be able to log into the game and play as a Silver member. This means that any account that has in the past subscribed to the game, even if only for the initial month, can come back and play for free!
I hope Cryptic customer service at least sends expired subscriptions an e mail to let them know.
Begging your pardon, but in what way exactly do you believe them to be different, other than the letters used?
well considering that GMT and UTC are NOT the same, being Military time (which does not always change the same way as GMT and other timezones as it is used on Military and Naval Vessels)
because a lot of companies use UTC instead of GMT (as UTC is actually GMT/GMT-1) and as most Euro servers are based in France/Germany, then UTC is more central to be used (although there are a few companies that have servers in Ireland)
but hey, I'm used to the time difference and compared to EST (GMT+5) its only an hour and barely noticeable a difference
EDIT: typoes
EDIT 2: info for those that want to learn something new and interesting
UTC is used by international shortwave broadcasters in their broadcast and program schedules. Ham radio operators, shortwave listeners, the military, and utility radio services are also big users of UTC. All of the times and dates found here at DXing.com at UTC unless otherwise indicated.
Greenwich mean time was based upon the time at the zero degree meridian that crossed through Greenwich, England. GMT became a world time and date standard because it was used by Britain's Royal Navy and merchant fleet during the nineteenth century. Today, UTC uses precise atomic clocks, shortwave time signals, and satellites to ensure that UTC remains a reliable, accurate standard for scientific and navigational purposes. Despite the improvements in accuracy, however, the same principles used in GMT have been carried over into UTC.
UTC uses a 24-hour system of time notation. "1:00 a.m." in UTC is expressed as 0100, pronounced "zero one hundred." Fifteen minutes after 0100 is expressed as 0115; thirty-eight minutes after 0100 is 0138 (usually pronounced "zero one thirty-eight"). The time one minute after 0159 is 0200. The time one minute after 1259 is 1300 (pronounced "thirteen hundred"). This continues until 2359. One minute later is 0000 ("zero hundred"), and the start of a new UTC day.
UTC and GMT are the same for half of the year until the UK goes on to BST timezone.
If you if you think I am wrong check your computers clock timezone and look at London,UK and it will say UTC+0 if you are use windows 7 and should say it on vista as well.
... anyway, would be nice if they would adjust the times now. Been incorrect for the past 3 downtimes. Logged off an hour early the first time this week. I am guessing they are using the same calculation when it was PST, needs to be +8 now.
UTC and GMT are the same for half of the year until the UK goes on to BST timezone.
If you if you think I am wrong check your computers clock timezone and look at London,UK and it will say UTC+0 if you are use windows 7 and should say it on vista as well.
when UK "goes" to BST timezone GMT remains GMT. UK will just be GMT +1 during summer thats why its called BST. So GMT and UTC are always the same.
I am just worried if i will be able to continue my mission where the maintenece dropped me out
Nope...never works that way....that's why ya have to pay attention to those global admin warning of the server coming down that they broadcast at 30 min then 15, 10 and 5 min.
You'll have to restart.
I just hopped on to buy some stuff at the C-Store. However, it appears that the C-Store will be unavailable until the maintenance is done, by which time the sale will be over. Cool!
Read the thread. Laughed my butt off. If people on that side of the pond can argue over UTC and GMT you somehow expect Americans to figure it out?! :rolleyes: (Hey - I never can figure it out - I always have to Google it.)
Now you know why they use Pacific. It's because at least they KNOW what time it is there.
Nope...never works that way....that's why ya have to pay attention to those global admin warning of the server coming down that they broadcast at 30 min then 15, 10 and 5 min.
You'll have to restart.
Well i had no clue that the mission will drag out for like 4 hours in the end there were only two of us trying to finish it.
If i never see a pyramid with romulans again it will be too soon.
Well i had no clue that the mission will drag out for like 4 hours in the end there were only two of us trying to finish it.
If i never see a pyramid with romulans again it will be too soon.
Im not surprised. It sounds like you are doing "The Big Dig" which is a fleet action meant for teams of 5 or more
I am finding the maintanence happening always at GMT bad times, rather anoying of late. Though it does give me time I would have played sto, to play in that galaxy, a long time ago, far far away
Nope...never works that way....that's why ya have to pay attention to those global admin warning of the server coming down that they broadcast at 30 min then 15, 10 and 5 min.
You'll have to restart.
Didn't see any warning for this one. May be they didn't set the right time for the warning
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Why can't they just use GMT, it's far less confusing, for us and them as well
What do you mean less confusing, UTC=GMT O.o
no it doesn't, they are actually different (but close enough)
UTC is an hour ahead of GMT
If I were Cryptic I would even go as far as to use Stardates. Why not ?
Begging your pardon, but in what way exactly do you believe them to be different, other than the letters used?
because a lot of companies use UTC instead of GMT (as UTC is actually GMT/GMT-1) and as most Euro servers are based in France/Germany, then UTC is more central to be used (although there are a few companies that have servers in Ireland)
but hey, I'm used to the time difference and compared to EST (GMT+5) its only an hour and barely noticeable a difference
EDIT: typoes
EDIT 2: info for those that want to learn something new and interesting
If you if you think I am wrong check your computers clock timezone and look at London,UK and it will say UTC+0 if you are use windows 7 and should say it on vista as well.
when UK "goes" to BST timezone GMT remains GMT. UK will just be GMT +1 during summer thats why its called BST. So GMT and UTC are always the same.
Nope...never works that way....that's why ya have to pay attention to those global admin warning of the server coming down that they broadcast at 30 min then 15, 10 and 5 min.
You'll have to restart.
Now you know why they use Pacific. It's because at least they KNOW what time it is there.
Well i had no clue that the mission will drag out for like 4 hours in the end there were only two of us trying to finish it.
If i never see a pyramid with romulans again it will be too soon.
Im not surprised. It sounds like you are doing "The Big Dig" which is a fleet action meant for teams of 5 or more
I am finding the maintanence happening always at GMT bad times, rather anoying of late. Though it does give me time I would have played sto, to play in that galaxy, a long time ago, far far away
Didn't see any warning for this one. May be they didn't set the right time for the warning