Time Zones and Places!

[Rían]

Valandil was just talking about starting this thread, and I've been thinking about doing it too, so here it is! The thread that lets you know when your friends might be on, and when they're most likely getting their beauty rest and also the country they live in, if they want to share that (I enjoy knowing the nationalities of the Mooters)

This one will be like the Picture Link thread - I'll keep updated as people post their times and places.

I'll also post the "when it's noon in California, it's X here" time, for my convenience, because I"m the thread-starter, neh neh! (with thanks to Earniel for the phrase)

Also, dst means "daylight savings time", an annoying American (I think) invention to mix people up - we "fall back" an hour in the fall, then "spring forward" in the spring


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Artanis : GMT + 1 (9 pm)
azalea : GMT - 5, Florida, USA (3 pm)
Beard of Pants : GMT + 12, New Zealand (8 am)
Beruthial's Cat : GMT - 5, New York, USA (3 pm)
brownjenkins : GMT - 5, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (3 pm)
Cassiopeia : GMT + 10, East Australia (6 am)
crickhollow : GMT - 8, ??? (noon)
Diamond of Long Cleve : GMT + 10, East Australia (6 am)
Eärniel : GMT + 1, Antwerp, Belgium

Falagar : GMT + 1, Oslo, Norway (9 pm)
Fat Middle : GMT + 1, Spain (9 pm)
gollum9630 : GMT - 8, Vancouver, Canada (noon)
GrayMouser : GMT + 8, Taiwan (4 am)
Gray-Wolf : GMT + 1, Hittarp, Scania, Sweden (9 pm)

Hanza : GMT, Bedfordshire, England (8 pm)
jerseydevil : GMT - 5, Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA (3 pm)
Jonathan : GMT + 1, Stockholm, Sweden (9 pm)
Khamul : GMT - 6, southern USA (2 pm)

Lalaith-Elf : GMT, Northumberland, England (8 pm)
Last Child of Ungoliant : GMT, Holford, Somerset, England (8 pm)
Linaewen : GMT + 10, Melbourne, Australia (6 am)
Lizra : GMT - 6?, Indiana, USA (2 pm)
luinilwen : GMT + 10, Sydney, Australia (6 am)

Mercutio : GMT - 5, East Coast of USA (3 pm)
Millane: GMT + 10, East Australia (6 am)
Mithrand1r: GMT - 5, Toms River, New Jersey, USA (3 pm)
Nerdanel : GMT + 2, Vasa, Finland (10 pm)
Nurvingiel : GMT - 8, Vancouver, Canada (noon)

Radagast the Brown : GMT + 2, Israel (10 pm)
RÃ*an : GMT - 8, California, USA (noon)

sunstar : GMT, (8 pm)
Valandil : GMT - 6, Chicago, Illinois, USA (2 pm)

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[Rían]

And sorting by time zone (can you tell I'm avoiding doing some jobs? )

GMT + 12
Beard of Pants : GMT + 12, New Zealand (8 am)

GMT + 10
Cassiopeia : GMT + 10, East Australia (6 am)
Diamond of Long Cleve : GMT + 10, East Australia (6 am)
Linaewen : GMT + 10, Melbourne, Australia (6 am)
luinilwen : GMT + 10, Sydney, Australia (6 am)
Millane: GMT + 10, East Australia (6 am)

GMT + 8
GrayMouser : GMT + 8, Taiwan (4 am)

GMT + 2
Nerdanel : GMT + 2, Vasa, Finland (10 pm)
Radagast the Brown : GMT + 2, Israel (10 pm)

GMT + 1
Artanis : GMT + 1
Eärniel : GMT + 1, Antwerp, Belgium (9 pm)
Falagar : GMT + 1, Oslo, Norway (9 pm)
Fat Middle : GMT + 1, Spain (9 pm)
Gray-Wolf : GMT + 1, Hittarp, Scania, Sweden (9 pm)
Jonathan : GMT + 1, Stockholm, Sweden (9 pm)

GMT!!!
Hanza : GMT, Bedfordshire, England (8 pm)
Lalaith-Elf : GMT, Northumberland, England (8 pm)
Last Child of Ungoliant : GMT, Holford, Somerset, England (8 pm)
sunstar : GMT, (8 pm)

GMT - 5
azalea : GMT - 5, Florida, USA (3 pm)
Beruthial's Cat : GMT - 5, New York, USA (3 pm)
brownjenkins : GMT - 5, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (3 pm)
jerseydevil : GMT - 5, Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA (3 pm)
Mercutio : GMT - 5, East Coast of USA (3 pm)
Mithrand1r: GMT - 5, Toms River, New Jersey, USA (3 pm)

GMT - 6
Khamul : GMT - 6, southern USA (2 pm)
Lizra : GMT - 6, Indiana, USA (2 pm)
Valandil : GMT - 6, Chicago, Illinois, USA (2 pm)

GMT - 8
crickhollow : GMT - 8, ?? (noon)
gollum9630 : GMT - 8, Vancouver, Canada (noon)
Nurvingiel : GMT - 8, Vancouver, Canada (noon)
RÃ*an : GMT - 8, California, USA (noon)

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

remember the conversation regarding roundabouts?, here is a picture of some

[jerseydevil]

Originally Posted by Last Child of Ungoliant

remember the conversation regarding roundabouts?, here is a picture of some

Hey - those are circles. And I prefer mm/dd/yy

[Nurvingiel]

Originally Posted by jerseydevil

Hey - those are circles. And I prefer mm/dd/yy

Hehe. Yes, those roundabouts are, in fact, circular.

Why do you like month/day/year? It doesn't have a logical order that I can discern...

[jerseydevil]

Originally Posted by Nurvingiel

Hehe. Yes, those roundabouts are, in fact, circular.

Well we call them circles. We have many in NJ - although they are dismantling most of them because they aren't evicient anymore. I think in the beginning of this thread there is a discussion on them and I give some information on them. I also had a picture of what a jughandle is - which is something NJ has a lot of.

Why do you like month/day/year? It doesn't have a logical order that I can discern...

Well year is mostly understood when speaking. And month gives the general time frame you are talking about. MY birthday is January 30th - which is shorter and less cumbersome to say than 30th of January. So when we write it out in short hand it is - 1/30/05 I just went over all this with rad and explained to him a third time format which is yyyy-mm-dd which is how computers need to store dates.

You can look at the MySQL manual on Date, Time and DateTime formats

[Linaewen]

I live in Today Land. (Not Tomorrow Land, as is commonly mistaken. Most of you here are all behind. )

Aussies on the East Coast (Me, Millane, Cass, DoLC etc) all live in GMT +10. I'm usually on when the Americans are (mostly) sleeping and when the Europeans aren't working or studying like they're supposed to. 3-8am US EST. Though Cass is usually on at like 10am my time because at the time I'm on, in the evenings, she starts to fall asleep at the computer or something.

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by Linaewen
I live in Today Land. (Not Tomorrow Land, as is commonly mistaken. Most of you here are all behind. )

Aussies on the East Coast (Me, Millane, Cass, DoLC etc) all live in GMT +10. I'm usually on when the Americans are (mostly) sleeping and when the Europeans aren't working or studying like they're supposed to. 3-8am US EST.

I guess I'm one of the people that doesn't fall into that "mostly" category.

Rian - just list me as 24/7

By the way - I'm GMT -5 (in other words, Eastern Time) - Plainsboro NJ.

[Rían]

ok, but I'll put your times, too so people know what types of posts to expect Does NJ have dst?

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by RÃ*an

Also, dst means "daylight savings time", an annoying American (I think) invention to mix people up - we "fall back" an hour in the fall, then "spring forward" in the spring

Oh, we also have Daylight Savings. I forgot, when I said 3-8am US EST, I meant according to the way the time is in Melbourne NOW, which is one hour forward. We'll be back to 'normal' soon.
Daylight Savings is good! It's already getting darker earlier now. I don't know about you, but I like my sunlight.

Yeah, JD is literally online 24/7 (But not necessarily on Entmoot). He doesn't know how to sleep, that one.

RÃ*an, you're up late tonight. Go to sleep!

[luinilwen]

We're actually +11 atm due to day light savings, although I don't think that applies for all that much longer.

I used to come on in the mornings my time when I was on hols, but now that I have started uni, usually around 6ish, when the Simpsons is on.

In terms of nationality, I am a Canadian-Australian. But only by parentage. Alas, the only time I have ever been to Canada was so long ago it is beyond my capacity to remember the visit.

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by RÃ*an
ok, but I'll put your times, too so people know what types of posts to expect Does NJ have dst?

yeah - NJ has daylight savings time.

As for why we have it - it actually makes sense. It's to keep the days similar basically. We're on the east end of the time zone. I think you are on the extreme end of the pacific time zone. The time changes make more sense depending on what end of the zone a place is located. Most of Indiana doesn't have daylight savings time. Which is actually a pain in the neck, because then some places do and others don't. Always having to check ahead before going somewhere.

[BeardofPants]

NZ is GMT +12. Although that'll be wrong at the moment, since we are in DST as well.

[Nurvingiel]

We have DST too, I don't know if we're in it or not.

I'm in GMT -8 or PST. (Vacouver, BC)

[Radagast The Brown]

I'm in +2, so it would be 10 pm here, when it's noon in California.

[sun-star]

I'm in GMT exactly (strangely enough, since its Greenwich Mean Time ) so when it's noon in California, it's 8 pm here. That's the time I'm mostly on, early evening, except for today - it's currently 12:40 pm.

DST is a British invention, thank you very much, though it was first introduced in Germany British Summer Time starts in the UK on March 28th this year.

[Valandil]

I see that Rian already got me (the nerve... attempting to deny me a post in addition to a thread!! ... )

Anyhoo... I thought a nice ADDITIONAL bit of info would be to tell everyone what time it is HERE when I post this. Then you can easily note differences between what time I TELL you it is, and what time your SCREEN says my post was made!!

It's 8:59 am on 3-17-04

The rest of you could edit your posts to add this info.

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

I also am in Greenwich Mean Time
and i hate British Summer Time, with all the clock cjanging
it messes my head up

BTW, it is currently 3:03 pm, ish
on Wednesday 17th of march, 2004

can i ask the americans (and anyone else who does it)
why do you put your dates as month/day/year
ie today, we say 17/03/04
and yet u say 03/17/04
the correct way (ie UK day/month/year) is much more logical

i am one of those that is generally online 24/7 also
i drink copious amounts of coffee

[strider8]

Originally Posted by Last Child of Ungoliant

can i ask the americans (and anyone else who does it)
why do you put your dates as month/day/year
ie today, we say 17/03/04
and yet u say 03/17/04
the correct way (ie UK day/month/year) is much more logical

i am english like Last Child of Ungoliant and i agree with him

[Nurvingiel]

Sometimes they go month/day/year in Sweden. Usually it's year/month/day, or just month/day. I don't know what the rest of Canada does, but I like day/month/year the best. Year/month/day is also perfectly logical.