Caladain Barton
Navy of Xoc Wildly Inappropriate.
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Posted - 2010.02.26 00:34:00 -
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With the changes to standings and how you percieve friends in the universe, and with alliances now being an actual entity, is there any talk/possibility of finally letting blues fuel each other's JB's, or use their Cyno beacons if standings are set to "deep blue" or somesuch?
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Caladain Barton
Navy of Xoc Wildly Inappropriate.
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Posted - 2010.02.26 02:13:00 -
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Originally by: Cors Edited by: Cors on 26/02/2010 02:01:51
Originally by: CCP Greyscale
Originally by: Faraelle Brightman Re: the calendar:
Time zones. How are you going to handle them, if at all? Obviously the default is GMT, but it would be nifty if, for example, in the settings menu or your account settings, you could select your local timezone and all calendar entries in your view would automagicly display in your local time. Good web-based systems can already do this (I should know, I've set it up in Drupal).
Current thinking is that, as with everything else currently in the game, all time will be in EVE time, with no variable-timezone options. While in the shortrun providing timezone support might seem useful, our feeling is that in the long run it's more beneficial for everyone to be used to working off the same clock. That said, we are looking at showing upcoming events (in atleast some views) in terms of "hours until start time", so you can quickly figure out how long until that fleet op without having to do too much math.
This is understood, but still, could we have the option to put in OUR timezone. So that when I look at MY calendar, it will show the times in EST and then GMT in brackets. EG: EST(EVE TIME). This way I can still refer to it as "The op on the 29th at 0100 GMT".
Then if we look at a Corp/Alliance calendar, it will only show the GMT/EVE time. (This is assuming that there are going to be corp level calendars and Alliance level Calendars and not JUST personal calendars that all members can view).
The reason for this is it would give us instant understanding about the time, but if we need to refer to it in GMT/EVE time, we don't have to do the conversions our selves. I cheat personally, as all my computer desktops have EST and GMT clocks on them for easy visual conversion. I'd like to eliminate that need. And it's better to build it in now, then to have to build it in later due to customer feedback.
Couldn't disagree more. In a multi-national alliance, multi-timezone, having *everything* in eve time makes life a million times easier. Honestly..converting to your local time zone is pretty easy (basic head math), or you can go here: http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx?y=2009&mo=10&d=17&h=17&mn=0 and create links for all corpies who fail basic math.
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