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October 16, 2009, 04:05 AM | #1 | |
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Downtime on Fri, Oct 16?
G'day. Can somebody help me out with the time?
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It also looks like 'Eastern' only needs 1 hour, but 'Pacific' must be a lot slower as they need 13 hours.
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October 16, 2009, 06:53 AM | #2 |
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LMBO. Looks like a typo!
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October 16, 2009, 09:26 AM | #3 |
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Yes, the "10am-11pm" was a typo, and it's been corrected.
However, since the first one (the Eastern time) is the one out of synch with your Aussie clock, I don't have a real answer for you, other than "it's wrong". If the maintenance will start at 1 PM Eastern Daylight Time today (Oct. 16th) in the US, then that will be 8 PM Eastern Summer Time in Australia on Oct. 15th. (Summer Time started a few weeks ago and is GMT +11 in QLD.) -I think- Time math is one of the more difficult concepts, in my opinion. |
October 16, 2009, 11:06 AM | #4 |
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yeah I originally had it 11am-12pm pacific, and I pushed it earlier by an hour and forgot to change the am/pm
next time I'm using 24hr time. Particularly with this crowd, nobody should have a problem with it. Starts in about 1hr... 1700 UTC / Zulu Incidentally, you can fix the timezone thing: In usercp, under "edit options", set your timezone to what it is WITHOUT daylight saving time. Then underneath that, pick the option "automatically detect DST settings". I haven't ever looked at how vbulletin does that, but I think it uses javascript to check the local time and use that.
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October 16, 2009, 04:44 PM | #5 | |
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G'day.
I thought it was just a typo. I actually read it about 3 or 4 times before I saw it. I thought it was amusing. ( I'm good at it myself. ) Quote:
Time math can get confusing. Australia is ahead of the USA, you put us behind. (The maintenance shut should of happened here on Saturday the 17th, 3 am) Enjoy your day.
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October 16, 2009, 04:58 PM | #6 |
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Oops!
See? I told you time math was difficult - especially for me! Actually, I knew you were ahead of us, but I thought that meant events occurred at an earlier time/date there than here. I was thinking backwards - not an unusual occurrence. |
October 19, 2009, 07:27 AM | #7 | |
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Thanks TYME
G'day. Thank you for your detailed updated post.
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I can do the math myself. 1700 + 1000 - 2400 = 0300. This means I should be asssleep while it all happens.
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October 19, 2009, 09:53 AM | #8 |
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You're asleep in the middle of the day??
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