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So I have seen forums like guru3d iirc use utc time and I figured that would be better to implement this in the forum. There would be less confusion about timezone coordination with someone else and it would be more uniform, for an example: if there were forum events/announcements with starting and ending deadlines it would be less confusing. There are more reasons which I can’t think of so sry if this sounds stupid but it kinda makes sense to me. 

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As long as the time that is visible to users is the same for everyone, you should be able to coordinate more easily. Ultimately, you'll always want to convert it to local time to add a reminder to your phone, for example (or figure out if e.g. 10 AM UTC is actually a convenient time for you)

 

I think it would be even more convenient to show both local time and UTC

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5 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

local time and UTC

Nice idea IG you get the best of both worlds then!

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You're referring to the time displayed on timestamps on content, like forum posts? Timestamps are displayed in your device timezone. I'm not sure how the timestamps of when a message was posted would be used to coordinate events.

 

If you're typing in a time in a post or message it's completely up to you what timezone you use. You could convert it to UTC and send it to them as UTC time if you want. But wouldn't it be easier to just tell them your time? If they're in a different timezone they would need to convert it from either UTC or your timezone either way.

 

46 minutes ago, goatedpenguin said:

So I have seen forums like guru3d iirc use utc time and I figured that would be better to implement this in the forum.

I just checked and their post timestamps appear to be using UTC+2.

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17 minutes ago, Spotty said:

But wouldn't it be easier to just tell them your time? If they're in a different timezone they would need to convert it from either UTC or your timezone either way

For me yes but for multiple people that would be hell. And i just remembered the site was which did utc time was wikipedia in their discussion page.

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2 minutes ago, goatedpenguin said:

For me yes but for multiple people that would be hell. And i just remembered the site was which did utc time was wikipedia in their discussion page.

Thinking about it some more, you really don't get around conversion though. If you tell me you want to have a chat at some point in time (your local time), I'll need to convert it to my local time to make (intuitive) sense of it.

 

If we want to use UTC, you'll first need to convert your local time to UTC, then I need to convert UTC to my local time again.

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Calendar and announcements use your local settings too. So any time sensitive thing on forums would be presented in time you understand.

 

Any external events, like LMG giveaways, will always use organizer's timezone.

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14 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

Any external events, like LMG giveaways, will always use organizer's timezone.

Yep, like folding events are in UK time because well I'm based in the UK 

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5 hours ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Yep, like folding events are in UK time because well I'm based in the UK 

Those are kinda in between. There's some code snippet that @colonel_mortis

Has used with forum maintenance to convert it to members local time. Since you are having events on forum in a way, maybe they should have that converter code in thread too.

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10 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

Those are kinda in between. There's some code snippet that @colonel_mortis

Has used with forum maintenance to convert it to members local time. Since you are having events on forum in a way, maybe they should have that converter code in thread too.

That code is such a hack. It could be productionised, but I don't think the effort involved would justify it - anyone that cares about using it would already be specifying a time zone on their post even without it providing some but small value, and anyone that doesn't specify a time zone today probably wouldn't use a dedicated editor button for this.

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Maybe for events that are in local time just also list your time zone like -6 GMT or something so whomever is reading it can figure out that when I say I'm posting this at 2:25PM local time -6 GMT they'd know that over in Belarus at +3 GMT it's 10:25 PM.

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I think the forum should add the feature for events that are done locally should have a utc timestamp + relative local timestamp(for the person reading it), for international events i.e. online it should be in utc + 0.  Normal posts should be in the user's localtime. A side topic would be to show timestamps where people are most active in the forum so ppl needing help can time their posts right.  

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