Aces High Bulletin Board

General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: brzwhalr on May 19, 2001, 03:04:00 PM

Title: What time are special events? EST or EDT?
Post by: brzwhalr on May 19, 2001, 03:04:00 PM

This is posted in Special Events General as well:

 

Quote

Gentlemen,
The Snapshot for this Friday night at 10 PM EST and Saturday at 3 PM EST is Operation Backhand Please carefully read the message of the day when you enter the arena. CM's will be sabre for Friday night and fd-ski for Saturday.
The Check 6! for Sunday will use the Mediterranean terrain, 1943. It will cover the invasion of Sicily. Fields used are shown in the map below. This will be at the usual time of 3 PM EST to 6 PM EST. Further details will be posted here Saturday.

After myself and at least one other missed the snapshot today due to some time confusion, I want to make sure I don't miss tomorrow's check 6.

The snapshot was run at 3pm EDT, not EST as posted in the announcement above.  Is the check 6 event to be run at 3pm EDT?

Please, could a CM reply to this so we dont miss out like we did today...

Title: What time are special events? EST or EDT?
Post by: Ozark on May 19, 2001, 04:24:00 PM

Hi Brzwhalr,

Sorry for the mess. It should be EDT.
I'll ask the CM's about also adding a Coordinated Universal Time(UTC) too.

Ozark

Title: What time are special events? EST or EDT?
Post by: Rocket on May 19, 2001, 05:12:00 PM

Alot of the write ups are done months before the event is put on.  We are trying to make sure that all events get listed as Eastern Time instead of EST or EDT.  This should help keep them easier to figure out no matter what time of year  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

S!
Rocket

Title: What time are special events? EST or EDT?
Post by: DA98 on May 20, 2001, 10:52:00 AM

 

Quote

I'll ask the CM's about also adding a Coordinated Universal Time(UTC) too.

Yes please, this would be a great help for non-american players.  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Title: What time are special events? EST or EDT?
Post by: Swoop on May 20, 2001, 01:48:00 PM

EDT?  EST?  Eastern time? UTC?  


AAAAAAAAAAARGH!   I'm confused enough as it is.  I got a keyring that tell ya the time in 140 cities around the world.  Christ knows what cities are in EST.  

 (http://www.swoop.com/images/logo_small.jpg)

Title: What time are special events? EST or EDT?
Post by: Jenga on May 21, 2001, 09:25:00 AM

 

Quote

Originally posted by Swoop:
EDT?  EST?  Eastern time? UTC?  


AAAAAAAAAAARGH!   I'm confused enough as it is.  I got a keyring that tell ya the time in 140 cities around the world.  Christ knows what cities are in EST.  

 

 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)

New York is on Eastern time - add 6 hours for Ams!!
(or it might be 5...)

  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

[This message has been edited by Jenga (edited 05-21-2001).]

Title: What time are special events? EST or EDT?
Post by: Nifty on May 21, 2001, 09:55:00 AM

I posted a decent reply in the Special Events Discussion.

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/Forum7/HTML/000401.html (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/Forum7/HTML/000401.html)

Title: What time are special events? EST or EDT?
Post by: Wanker on May 21, 2001, 10:11:00 AM

Gents, to avoid confusion, we're going to start announcing the times as US EASTERN TIME. You may use whatever converter you like to get the correct time based on that.

John "banana" Dahlen
Senior CM
Aces High Scenario Corps

Title: What time are special events? EST or EDT?
Post by: Pepe on May 21, 2001, 10:16:00 AM

What time is US Eastern Time? Does it change Summer/Winter?

Why don't we fix all to GMT? No changes between summer/winter, and general accepted time measurement.

Cheers,

Pepe

Title: What time are special events? EST or EDT?
Post by: Wanker on May 21, 2001, 10:24:00 AM

Pepe, all you have to do is go to your favorite time zone converter, and ask what time it is in New York City. I just did this at  http://www.timezoneconverter.com/ (http://www.timezoneconverter.com/)  and it came up with the correct time, converted it into GMT for me, AND told me whether New York is on daylight's saving time or not.

Title: What time are special events? EST or EDT?
Post by: Pepe on May 21, 2001, 10:39:00 AM

Exactly, banana, that's my point. You go to that page, ask what time is it in your town, click the "?" sign and...what do you got?

Yes, your town's time in terms of GMT +/- hours. So, if you give any time in GMT format, is the easiest way to have everyone pleased.

Cheers,

Pepe.

Title: What time are special events? EST or EDT?
Post by: Nifty on May 21, 2001, 10:49:00 AM

US Eastern Time is currently GMT-0400.  It will remain that way until October when we go off daylight savings time (and then we'll be GMT-0500).  For now, just add 4 hours onto your GMT offset.  So if you're GMT+0200 you're AHEvents+0600.   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)