I was looking at the website and it seemed a little confusing for those that would not know that times are in PST.
I think it would be helpful to add PST, and would create less confusion for new users.
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Debi Baskerville The times listed should be listed as per your local time zone. That was a recent update. It confused me at first.
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Galen I think showing times local to your time zone is a mixed blessing. Yes, you can quickly tell when something is going to happen. But then how do you communicate it to someone else in Sansar? You have to mentally convert it back to PST or some other agreed-to standard.
I personally would rather stick with one standard (and not localize) or to show both where possible, favoring the standard when not possible to compute local.
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Andrew Lawrence Agreed, teaching people to think in terms of "Sansar Time", and to be mindful of the difference between their local time, is really a necessary part of orientation. It's almost impossible to organize people on a platform if the platform itself doesn't create the time standard.
It would be great to eventually see local time underneath Sansar Time somewhere on a main page, where it explicitly says how many hours it is ahead or behind Sansar Time. The good thing is we already know they are looking into options for a new website, because they are almost as limited in what they can do with it as we are. -
Richardus Raymaker The only right time for me to show is SLT, from there it's easy to convert back. Now by accident :) SLT (Sansar local time) and SLT in Secondlife are the same.
Showing local times is a very bad idea. Just take the summer/wintertime as example. That's already chaos. and more simple then local times.
Also, how do i know in what time zone the other is ?
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Debi Baskerville I honestly would love to see both posted .. like this
9:00 SLT (7:00CT) where the time in brackets is your local time.
I know for some doing the conversion is confusing to them, so any means of lessening confusion is worthwhile.
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Richardus Raymaker That's very good idea debi.
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Mia Grace Yes, except SLT isn't a thing. Just pick a real time zone and list it as that. For instance, if SLT=GMT, just say 9:00AM GMT (4:00AM EST). Nobody will know what time zone "SLT" maps to without looking it up.
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Richardus Raymaker For me SLT is more logic them GMT or EST. The last 2 i cannot convert and not know for sure what time zone the are. SLT works fine in SL. people get used to it in Sansar.
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Debi Baskerville It's a good point. Those of us who came from SL know SLT, but those who haven't been in Second Life won't get the connection. In that case, then use PST. That is the same time zone as Second Life and as far as I know the same one Sansar uses.
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Galen SLT is a bad choice, unless LL is going to establish it in Sansar like they did (quite successfully) in SL.
It would be tempting for me to suggest going with UTC or GMT. These are, after all, international standards. The only problem is that almost all of the US and many other countries have daylight saving time concepts with variable and occasionally changing rules for how to compute them. In some ways it seems better to just pick PST/PDT or define SLT as pegged to PST/PDT.
I think being time zone agnostic is probably going to be a bad move on LL's part. It solves one basic problem by encouraging experience creators to decide on standards, but it creates a really nasty, messy problem by offering no-standard as an alternative.
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Eliot - Sansar I can tell you I am also getting confused and I have already brought this up with product.
Thanks for giving me this so that I can show it to the team.
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