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Praxis Ginimic
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#21 - 2013-04-02 22:07:29 UTC
iskflakes wrote:
Summer/winter time is an outdated concept. It causes more trouble than it's worth because lighting is so cheap these days and the need to stay synchronized with people in other timezones is more important than ever. The government needs to nerf summer/winter time.


Sir, you are wrong. Those of you who work indoors, with electric light may not understand just how important that extra hour of daylight is to us grunts who earn our rl isk outside.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#22 - 2013-04-02 22:10:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
Remiel Pollard wrote:
Rana Ash wrote:
Once i take over the world you will all adapt to my time, that will stop this silly whining about time Twisted


Will you kindly make it a decimal system? This base-12 crap gets on my nerves Evil

Yes please! 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per hour. The ancient Sumerians may have thought 12s and 60s had some mystic mojo, but I'm not noticing any particular blessings.
ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#23 - 2013-04-02 23:13:46 UTC
As interesting as this discussion is, it has only slightly to do with EvE.
So as a result, I should be moving this thread to Out of Pod Experience.

And in due time I probably will. If I can find the time that is. Always lost, time. It's a bit elusive .....Blink

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#24 - 2013-04-02 23:30:40 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Remiel Pollard wrote:
Rana Ash wrote:
Once i take over the world you will all adapt to my time, that will stop this silly whining about time Twisted


Will you kindly make it a decimal system? This base-12 crap gets on my nerves Evil

Yes please! 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per hour. The ancient Sumerians may have thought 12s and 60s had some mystic mojo, but I'm not noticing any particular blessings.

525.6 days per year if you do it that way, a year being 1 orbit around the sun.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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Remiel Pollard
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#25 - 2013-04-03 03:25:39 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Remiel Pollard wrote:
Rana Ash wrote:
Once i take over the world you will all adapt to my time, that will stop this silly whining about time Twisted


Will you kindly make it a decimal system? This base-12 crap gets on my nerves Evil

Yes please! 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per hour. The ancient Sumerians may have thought 12s and 60s had some mystic mojo, but I'm not noticing any particular blessings.

525.6 days per year if you do it that way, a year being 1 orbit around the sun.


Nope, a day would remain the same. Only the the hours/minutes/seconds would change to fit the period of a full revolution, and then 365 revolutions would still equate to one full orbit. We would even still have leap years. Nothing would change except an hour and its gradients would become longer.

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Frank Doberman
7th Church of the Apocalyptic Lawnmower
#26 - 2013-04-03 04:31:53 UTC
Beckie DeLey wrote:
While you are at it, also nuke that stupid crap about feet, pounds, inches, ounzes and whatever else you dreamed up during the 11th century. Seriously, it's time to bury the middle age for good and get on with the times.


I'd rather like to keep my feet thank you very much.

How on earth would I be able to go to the toilet or leave my parents basement to go get more Cheetos if I didn't have some form of basic walking and balancing equipment on the end of my legs?

Maybe this is why Oscar Pistorius is a world famous athlete and marksman, and not the leader of a massive nullsec alliance in EvE. Maybe he just plays WoW instead?
Othran
Route One
#27 - 2013-04-03 07:46:04 UTC
Dave Stark wrote:
Othran wrote:
Should just call it daylight saving time in the UK.

After the last few summers calling it "British Summer Time" is frankly taking the ****.


"british summer time"

pretty sure there's still snow in my garden...


The depressing thing is that (for this part of the Midlands) March, April and May are statistically the driest months of the year.

Oh and yes we still have snow in some shady corners - hardly surprising given overnight minimum air temp of -3C and minimum ground temp of -7.5C.

Isn't summertime lovely Ugh
Josef Djugashvilis
#28 - 2013-04-03 08:00:23 UTC
Nataliya Barre wrote:
Thought it was called British Rain Season Lol


We have the winter rains followed by the monsoon season here in 'sunny' Manchester.

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Othran
Route One
#29 - 2013-04-03 10:04:31 UTC
Josef Djugashvilis wrote:
Nataliya Barre wrote:
Thought it was called British Rain Season Lol


We have the winter rains followed by the monsoon season here in 'sunny' Manchester.


Amusingly you are pretty close to the mark.

1-4 June is phase 1 of the European Summer Monsoon*;
10-14 June is phase 2;
18-27 June is phase 3.

That's why June is always so crappy in the UK.

*I'm not making this up, it really is called that Lol
Liafcipe9000
Critically Preposterous
#30 - 2013-04-03 10:55:12 UTC
Beckie DeLey
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#31 - 2013-04-03 17:21:59 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
Beckie DeLey wrote:
While you are at it, also nuke that stupid crap about feet, pounds, inches, ounzes and whatever else you dreamed up during the 11th century. Seriously, it's time to bury the middle age for good and get on with the times.


We did, it's called decimalisation, we can still use the old imperial measurements, but they have to be used alongside metric equivalents for it to be legal. Even our fuel is sold by the litre these days.


I didn't know that. Interesting.
Welcome to the present, then.

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Lister Dax
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#32 - 2013-04-03 17:55:41 UTC
We had our summer already in Leicester, UK. It was that one day it managed to reach 15℃ Roll Although 2 days later it was below 0 all day lol.
Othran
Route One
#33 - 2013-04-07 06:28:10 UTC
Lister Dax wrote:
We had our summer already in Leicester, UK. It was that one day it managed to reach 15℃ Roll Although 2 days later it was below 0 all day lol.


Lies. I don't remember 15C. Highest temp since Feb has been 9C and that was last Monday as I was stuck in a huge queue at Whetstone tip :(
Dark Lightstrong
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#34 - 2013-04-07 06:58:01 UTC
Rana Ash wrote:
Once i take over the world you will all adapt to my time, that will stop this silly whining about time Twisted

Kim Jong-un is that you?
Frying Doom
#35 - 2013-04-07 06:59:24 UTC
Dark Lightstrong wrote:
Rana Ash wrote:
Once i take over the world you will all adapt to my time, that will stop this silly whining about time Twisted

Kim Jong-un is that you?

It is the ghost of Kim Jong-il.

Thats why its on a web forum post.Lol

Any spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors are because frankly, I don't care!!
Hessian Arcturus
Doomheim
#36 - 2013-04-07 08:04:15 UTC
Alara IonStorm wrote:
Daylight Savings Time Explained.

Nothing to do with the thread but very interesting.


That's no how physics works!!! Haha love it...

On a side note, this has everything to do with the thread. Doesn't it???

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ISD Gallifreyan
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#37 - 2013-04-07 08:38:37 UTC
The other way to avoid Daylight Savings Time (winter/summer time) would be to get a job at CCP to help make serious intrrnet spaceships better, and move to Iceland.

Also, statistically the time adjustment days are the most dangerous days to drive, as most people are out of balance adjusting to the modified time.

ISD Gallifreyan

Lt. Commander

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Interstellar Services Department
Domina Trix
McKNOBBLER DRINKING CLAN
#38 - 2013-04-07 09:39:42 UTC
Holgrak Blacksmith wrote:
I'm a UK player, I just about get used to the clocks going forward/backward with respect to downtime, and then the clocks change again.

Was wondering why there had been such a huge downtime until I remembered british summer time.


It would be useful if we could manually change the in-game clock or it read the time from my pc.

Two of the defining characteristics of a carebear are wanting other players to play the way the carebear wants and whining on the forums for the game to change when they don't. Yet I see more threads on these forums from gankers than I do miners whining about wanting the game changed to suit them.
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