Dear Robert: Thats a good point and I think worth a "+1".
Lets just move forward and declare the OpenSim part of the Metaverse to be based on UTC for events, scripts and whatever. We are trying to express "Office Hour" for the developers held on Wright Plaza each Tuesday as 1900 UTC and ignore the daylight/standard time shift twice a year in some places. Also, some of us are ensuring that our region servers are setup as UTC for their timezone and getting used to expressing times like that. So, ... I would say, "Yes". Lets just start using UTC and as we find each rock in the way, why, we'll bring out the virtual rock crusher, fix it, and move on. Charles ________________________________ From: Robert Klein <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 1:52:19 PM Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Correcting Metaverse Time When I first approached this topic I failed to separate out the server from the viewer. Servers are what they are and I am not proposing we touch that part. Just trying to move us away from using SLT for activities and such because it gets confusing. I for one plan on leaving the whole SL thing behind in favor of OpenSim and using constant references to SLT will be clumsy for clients new to the metaverse. So maybe the questions for this thread becomes: What would be the best ways we can start using UTC now? Event planning? Scripting? Activities on our own regions? Do we have to wait for the viewers to be adjusted? Is it as simple as we just start doing stuff in UTC and not reference SLT anymore? What parts do we leave for the future? -Robert Stefan Andersson wrote: > > > >> If this isn't universally the case (e.g. for script functions) then we >> probably need to change it so that it is always > the case. We appear to >> be pretty happy using UTC for data purposes and we should aim for >> consistency in this. Nobody > should need to set their server to any >> particular time zone. > +1 on not having to change server time. > > I'm only proposing we're using UTC as our internal standard. Whatever is > communicated out thru viewers, script functions et c is something else > entirely, and rather contextual. > > All other times should be decorated with timezone, offset, or both. > > /Stefan > _______________________________________________ > 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-tp2179635p2189114.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
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