Re: GMT or London Time?

Ok, this bug has been annoying me for quite some time.

EVERYWHERE, on the website, when you ask for times, like when the round starts, or attacks being, etc. etc., it'll say a particular time in GMT. Even Mods will tell you the times in GMT.

However, half of the times they are wrong!

To be precise, half of the year they are wrong!


During summer time, as we all know, all of the timezones put their clock an hour ahead. All timezones, but not the GMT. This results in, for instance, the Benelux, Berlin, Paris (Western Europe) Time zone to go from being GMT+1 to GMT+2. The same goes for the UK (even Greenwich!), which goes from being GMT+0 to being GMT+1 (British Summer Time).

Now all would be ok, were it not for the fact that mods and the game in actions adhere to London time (so GMT+1 during summer, rounds start and end at 6:00 pm for me all year round), when they SAY they are adhering to GMT. This may have led to many incorrect EoR jumps and people missing ticks in the past, present and future, and continues to be a thorn in my eye.


So mods, could you please change every input in the game where a time is mentioned from saying GMT to saying London time, and stop calling it GMT? Or are you willing to change every game function to use the actual GMT time?



Actual GMT clock:
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/

Greenwich clock (currently on British Summer Time):
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=769

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Re: GMT or London Time?

I wouldnt mind getting this changed since it confuses the fudge out of me also! I understand where you are coming from but Im not up to date on when you change in and out of Daylight saving times, nor do I wish to be, Im on the other side of the world usually whining about it getting cold around that time tongue

I would assume its server based? But yes, I agree, since we promote everything as GMT, it would be nice for it to strightly stay GMT time smile

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Re: GMT or London Time?

It's just commonly known as GMT & BST(British Summer time) in the UK, if that helps & it's always 17:00 GMT or BST for round start/ending.

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Re: GMT or London Time?

wendys right.