|
Author |
Thread Statistics | Show CCP posts - 0 post(s) |
Baka Lakadaka
Gallente Agony Unleashed Agony Empire
|
Posted - 2009.05.20 02:24:00 -
[1]
UTC is regularly adjusted to bring it into line with the rotation of the earth. This is why we have leap seconds added every few years. It's an exact time based on atomic clocks (which are based on the frequency of the caesium atom).
GMT is based on the rotation of the earth and therefore slightly irregular as the earth spins faster or slower and changes it's axis over time.
So UTC is regularly adjusted to make it as close as possible to GMT, so that the sun continues to rise and set at around the same time.......over many thousands of years, the sun would end up rising at lunch time if we didn't adjust.
For most practical purposes, GMT and UTC are the same and Eve Time can be based on either term used interchangeably. If you want to time your POS destruction operation to within less than a second, I suggest you use UTC. If you want everyone to turn up at midnight Eve Time, then GMT would be quite acceptable. If you're some sort of RL boffin who's trying to spot a distant star using the Hubble telescope, then the difference between UTC and GMT might become important.
No matter how much the proponents of UTC state that it's the be all and end all of time, it still gets adjusted to bring it back in line with the good old GMT on a regular basis.
For the purposes of playing the internet spaceship game called Eve, GMT/UTC are the same thing. Using Google and searching for "world time converter" or "UTC GMT Local Time" will give you a whole raft of options for working out what time you need to be online for your corporations next big mining op. You can even get pretty graphs that move and show you what time it is in different places. They can even show if it's day or night in a given location.
______________________ Isn't it time you learned to fight back? Agony Unleashed Home of the PvP University.
Now Recruiting. |
Baka Lakadaka
Gallente Agony Unleashed Agony Empire
|
Posted - 2009.05.20 05:03:00 -
[2]
UT1 is a more modern term, I prefer GMT. Being a former navy navigator, it just sits better with me. Also when I visited London, I didn't visit the UTC museum or the UT1 observatory.....it was the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. Some things just sound better.
Zulu is also a term that I would use. The military use letters to designate time zones - it's quick and easy to use one letter, rather than GMT+10. ______________________ Isn't it time you learned to fight back? Agony Unleashed Home of the PvP University.
Now Recruiting. |
Baka Lakadaka
Gallente Agony Unleashed Agony Empire
|
Posted - 2009.05.20 11:28:00 -
[3]
Originally by: Br Errman Since we're on the subjective of time, I once worked across time zones where one observed Daylight Saving Time and the other did not. In the winter, the travel time was 2 hours to cover a 45 mile trip; whereas the reverse trip was completed in -15 minutes (I arrived 15 minutes before I left). When Daylight Saving Time was in effect, the trip took 1 hour, both directions.
I've had similar experiences here - in the far north of New South Wales you have to cross the border into Queensland to get to the airport to fly to Sydney (the capital of NSW). NSW has daylight savings, QLD doesn't. It makes for an interesting time to get to your plane - you leave home at 8am to catch a 7.45am flight (it's only 5mins to the airport), then you fly for 1 hour 15 minutes to arrive after 10am.
______________________ Isn't it time you learned to fight back? Agony Unleashed Home of the PvP University.
Now Recruiting. |
Baka Lakadaka
Gallente Agony Unleashed Agony Empire
|
Posted - 2009.05.21 01:47:00 -
[4]
Originally by: Lucian Aurelius My thanks for everyone's help on this. I'm terrible at comparing time zones so all of this information was much appreciated! I thought the trivia on the subject was interesting as well On a side note, it was mentioned that the timer on this forum is the same as EVE time. Is there somewhere on the forums you can look for EVE time without having to post a message?
Not on the forum, but open this link in a second tab or browser: World Time Clock and hit refresh. UTC is listed at the bottom of the city list.
There are others around that dynamically update, but you'll need to search for those, cos I'm feeling lazy. You can also get a number of applications that you could install, or if you're using Vista maybe a gadget. Linux has some utilities as well.
Another handy source is to use EveMon as it has the server time built in to the display.
______________________ Isn't it time you learned to fight back? Agony Unleashed Home of the PvP University.
Now Recruiting. |
|
|
|