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leviathen86
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Server updates are needed, but could there please be the correct downtime in the launcher? 0600 - 0930 AM pasific is not 02:00 - 05:30 UTC. its 14:00 - 17:30.
UTC doesnt use the AM/PM system. (02:00 - 05:30 is the middle of the night)
gets me evey time.
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UTC doesnt use the AM/PM system. (02:00 - 05:30 is the middle of the night)
gets me evey time.
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Which -is- 2:00 - 5:30 just PM and opposed to AM. People need to be clear about these things. You want them to adopt a 24-hour/military-style timer as opposed to a 12-hour AM/PM timer. Right?
So either add "PM" or say "14:00".
Typing "2:00" when meaning "2:00 PM/14:00" is wrong in both systems
Sounds like the same madness of the US using literally the ONLY possible date format capable of creating a problem in understanding.
sure its simple to go and look up pacific to GMT but i mean if Bioware can bother to put it in their patch notes why cant they?
"It appears we have lost our sex appeal, captain."- Tuvok
GMT is the same as UTC
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GMT never changes. What you call daylight saving we call "British Summer Time" and so times altered times are BST not GMT.
Either way Cryptic just seem to have a problem with the 24 hour format of UTC maybe they don't like it. This makes it look unprofessional as they don't convert correctly.
GMT is equivalent to UTC and has nothing to do with daylight savings (the only difference being that UTC is measured on atomic clocks and therefore is much more accurate and with UTC a day starts at 00:00, whereas with GMT it used to be 12:00 noon). When the UK goes into the summer time, they switch to BST = GMT+1
I live in Greenwich directly under the green laser light that marks the meridian line so I should know!
The issue that Cryptic have week-in, week-out is that they cannot use a 24-hr clock/tell the time (which is a more simple task than timezone conversion). Each week we are told the time of the update both in PST (which is GMT/UTC-8) along with the UTC/GMT time. Only ever week the GMT time is given as 12-hrs before it actually is - i.e saying 02:00 rather than 14:00.
It makes me chuckle everytime, but isn't really the end of the world.
...#LLAP...
UTC is what the countries of this ball of chaos use to measure their own timezones plus those countries using DST.
GMT is where the uk is at now in timezone as of several weeks ago when DST became invalid for the rest of the year until early next year.
the USA had their own DST change a few days ago.
i never needed to use the UTC to measure the countries own time when DST was or wasnt in effect, for the USA pacific time for example all i have to do is look at my clock now and it says 6pm, i know the pacific time is 8 hours behind, so it would be 10am there like that at this time. the trick however for a country like russia that does not use DST is to add or take an hour based on where your own clock lands on the DST or non DST.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Better get used to Pacific Time. Imaginary lines running through Greenwich, England, are no longer the center of the modern world.
Silicon Valley is on PST, which includes Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Dropbox, Netflix, Adobe, Intel, Nvidia, AMD, HP, Cisco, Oracle, EA, and yes even Cryptic.
Microsoft and Amazon are also on PST up in WA state.
Its not imaginary. It's a real line and at night there is a green laser
...#LLAP...
The Americans? No way dude! But this is a Star Trek (or at least based on, or the very least sci-fi based lol...) game. So I expect them to understand 24h military time.
The point is: Everyone should be expected to be able to get his own time out of UTC. That's what it's there for. It's an unmodified timescale. Knowing when PDT switches to PST and converting that to my own time which has daylight saving as well, but switched on other days is just nonsense. UTC was made for that very reason. So use it, and first and foremost: use it correctly.