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for the love of god show local time

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Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#41 - 2012-07-03 15:45:42 UTC
CCP Paradox wrote:
wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff



Bit insulting, when a customer asks a fairly reasonable question and they get this kind of response, isn't it?

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Kijo Rikki
Killboard Padding Services
#42 - 2012-07-03 15:47:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Kijo Rikki
Alpheias wrote:


And showed your age. Tell me, you still wind up clocks too?

Though I am shocked and amazed that you own something so modern as a computer, connected to the internet. Playing an MMO.

That's interconnected, pop.


Not the same, when I get tired of being connected I can walk away and there's nothing anyone can do to get my attention. Much like a landline, when I leave the house there's nothing anyone can do to get my attention. P

You make a valid point, good Sir or Madam. 
Alpheias
Tactical Farmers.
Pandemic Horde
#43 - 2012-07-03 15:49:28 UTC
Mallak Azaria wrote:
Alpheias wrote:
Kijo Rikki wrote:
I'm from the century that despises cell phones and facebook. I've hated cell phones since they were called beepers, I am not a fan of being overly accessible or connected to the world by the hip. There used to be a time when everyone went somewhere to be social. While those places still exist, I find it overly annoying when I see a bunch of people living their social life by staring at a phone. Oh dear I think I just ranted.....


And showed your age. Tell me, you still wind up clocks too?

Though I am shocked and amazed that you own something so modern as a computer, connected to the internet. Playing an MMO.

That's interconnected, pop.


I'm not fond of social media & mobile phones either but I still own a mobile. I happen to be one of the few people in the world that is capable of owning an iPhone with out staring at it every waking moment of my life.


Same here. I own of a Samsung Galaxy S2 and I use mine for calling, texts, some browsing and some awkward photography of friends in stunningly embarrassing moments.

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Colonel Xaven
Perkone
Caldari State
#44 - 2012-07-03 15:52:03 UTC
Bumblefck wrote:
CCP Paradox wrote:
wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff


Bit insulting, when a customer asks a fairly reasonable question and they get this kind of response, isn't it?


Where are you detecting an insult in a movie quote that's absolutely neutral to the topic?

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Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#45 - 2012-07-03 15:54:00 UTC  |  Edited by: Micheal Dietrich
Psychotic Monk wrote:
Then how will you coordinate with people in different countries. Do you want to always be saying '7 PM CST" and doing conversions in your head about when people mean when they say 7 PM? It'd basically be impossible to run an international organization, such as your average corp.

I think if you had local time you'd quickly be asking for universal time.


Back in my day in DAOC when we had to run uphill both ways to a raid and back we had to do all of the conversions ourselves. Each time I filled out a raid listing I would include all of states hours, Europe's hours, and Australia's hours and save the trouble for everyone else. These kids don't realize how good they have it when we can say 22:00 eve time and everyone can simply look at the current time and add a few hours up from there. If they want local time they can buy a damn clock I say. Hell, they can learn to tell time by the rotation of the sun for all I care. Their momma must be real proud at how helpless they've become that they can't even alt-tab to check the time.

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Forum Clone 77777
Doomheim
#46 - 2012-07-03 15:55:26 UTC
I thought people used to have y'know.. Clocks, phones.. Watches? Anything? Too poor?
Seriously, its EVE time, and it just "happens" to be the local time for Iceland.

If you need to know what the time is, maybe find out by not playing a game.

Failures, failures everywhere..
Jett0
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#47 - 2012-07-03 15:58:29 UTC
CCP Paradox wrote:
wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff


Can we get more dev posts like this in the future??

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Lucy Ferrr
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#48 - 2012-07-03 16:02:35 UTC
I used to want this when I first started. Now I just know to subtract 4 hours from Eve time, it's not that hard. Having different times on different clients would cause way more headaches then it would cure. Everyone having the same time on their clock makes it much easier to schedule group activities. I like alliance mails only having one time listed, it would be quite bothersome to see 10 different time zones listed in every mail.
Katja Faith
Doomheim
#49 - 2012-07-03 16:06:32 UTC
4-AcO-DMT wrote:
srsly, how hard can it be ?


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Morwen Lagann
Tyrathlion Interstellar
#50 - 2012-07-03 16:07:02 UTC
Bumblefck wrote:
CCP Paradox wrote:
wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff



Bit insulting, when a customer asks a fairly reasonable question and they get this kind of response, isn't it?


That the customer is so lazy he can't look at his watch/cell phone/wall clock/desktop is more insulting (to the customer) than a dev responding with a (subtly) on-topic joke.

Besides, someone needs to fill in for Punkturis and troll the forums while she's on vacation...Big smile

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Jimmy Gunsmythe
Sebiestor Tribe
#51 - 2012-07-03 16:18:36 UTC
Kijo Rikki wrote:
Alpheias wrote:
Kijo Rikki wrote:
How about a mouseover function to show local time? Smile


How about you look at your watch, phone or in one of the corners on your desktop? Maybe the one at your wall?


Don't have a phone or a watch or a clock on the wall and I'd have to alt tab out, which would be bad in the middle of something important, mmkay?


$5 will get you one from a Walmart or Dollar General store.

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Kijo Rikki
Killboard Padding Services
#52 - 2012-07-03 16:24:59 UTC
That's nice but I don't really need one. It was just a suggestion, but truthfully I only need to know the time 3 times a day, when to get up, when work ends, and when to go to bed. 4 on Wednesdays because I need to know when through the wormhole starts but I solve that by just having science channel turned on after dark.

You make a valid point, good Sir or Madam. 
stoicfaux
#53 - 2012-07-03 16:27:33 UTC  |  Edited by: stoicfaux
Jett0 wrote:
CCP Paradox wrote:
wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff


Can we get more dev posts like this in the future??

We need some more in the past as well.

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Cebraio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#54 - 2012-07-03 16:34:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Cebraio
Forum Clone 77777 wrote:
I thought people used to have y'know.. Clocks, phones.. Watches? Anything? Too poor?
Seriously, its EVE time, and it just "happens" to be the local time for Iceland.

If you need to know what the time is, maybe find out by not playing a game.

Failures, failures everywhere..

You too, fail at timezones... and at basic EVE server knowledge ... so let's just say you fail at EVE.

Edit: I take that back: I always assumed Tranquility time was based on UTC/GMT (which it probably is), but as you said it "happens" to be Reykjavik time as well. So I fail at timezones and at EVE.
Henry Haphorn
Killer Yankee
#55 - 2012-07-03 16:36:19 UTC
CCP Paradox wrote:
wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff


This.

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Citsatllort
Doomheim
#56 - 2012-07-03 16:37:19 UTC
They can't show local time but we get some idiotic ship spin counter.
Skorpynekomimi
#57 - 2012-07-03 16:38:02 UTC
Just get a wall clock. They're not expensive.

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4-AcO-DMT
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#58 - 2012-07-03 16:44:29 UTC
its ******* confusing when all events in the calendar are in different time than local alright ??
Cebraio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#59 - 2012-07-03 16:47:34 UTC
4-AcO-DMT wrote:
its ******* confusing when all events in the calendar are in different time than local alright ??


No. Just you are confused. You'll get used to EVE time and start loving it, like we all do.
4-AcO-DMT
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#60 - 2012-07-03 16:54:47 UTC
Cebraio wrote:

No. Just you are confused. You'll get used to EVE time and start loving it, like we all do.



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