I completely agree with you Charles. It is one of those things that just seems to make sense. I can see why Linden Labs settled on PST in the very early stages, but it doesn't really work in the long run for a global massively hypergridded metaverse... ooh sorry that was a mouthful.
-Robert Charles Krinke wrote: > > > > Let me weigh in a little bit. > > There are a number of use cases for OpenSim. Some of them are either > sims-in-boxes or walled gardens where the sim/grid owner would like to do > 'their own thing' with respect to timezone notions. > > But, for the purposes of this discussion, I think we are contemplating > those standalones, grids and HyperGrid connections where having everything > public in the Metaverse is on the same timezone. > > This has an effect on events, scripts, assets, textures and other. > Basically everything where the concept of NOW() is important. > > As we build out our part of the Metaverse with OpenSim, it seems that > having a standardized time helps us all and I get the impression that most > folks would favor UTC/GMT as the standard time for the OpenSim Metaverse. > > Charles > > > > ________________________________ > From: Robert Klein <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 1:01:06 PM > Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Correcting Metaverse Time > > > Justin what do you think? Where do we start to make this happen? > > Cheers, > > -Robert > > > Ai Austin wrote: >> >> At 05:06 19/01/2009, [email protected] wrote: >>>I was wondering why we continue to use SL (PST) time in our wonderful >>>OpenSim universe instead of GMT/UTC? What would it take to set our own >>>standalone opensims for another timezone? >> >> >> I would vote for UTC... and cakll it that rather GMT wh ich happens >> to equal UTC. We are international after all :-) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Opensim-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://n2.nabble.com/Correcting-Metaverse-Time-tp2179635p2183427.html > Sent from the opensim-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Correcting-Metaverse-Time-tp2179635p2183557.html Sent from the opensim-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
