A Land Far Away

Next in our fascinating series of polls is when do you log on. Being that we have a diverse group of people scattered throught the four corners of the Prime Material Plane, and we have not perfected our ALFA Astral Travel Emulator, answering in local time would skew the statistics.

Therefore, if you could please post your time in UTC. For example, I live in the EST (-5) . So if I were to log on, in general, at 2200 EST, that would be 300 UTC (add 5 to 22 and if greater than or equal to 24, subtract 24.

If Swift, who we have forcibly physically relocated to a +9 time zone for the purposes of this study, were to log in at 0300 local time, that would be 1800 UTC (subtract 9 gives you -6 add 24 gives you 18).

For an easer time, look here, but remember to use local STANDARD time please. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

This way we can have an idea as to the peak times ALFAns are on-line simultaneously. Once again, the limitations of the webboard require 2-hour blocks.

Thanks.

Um... need's longer time options.

Not HOW long you are in, but your starting time. Poll #3 will cover time spent in game, and a (false) assumption as to independance of start time and duration will be made

Yea. Still needs to be able to choose more options cause I start at like 3-4 different times depending on the day and whom I'm dming.

Vendrin wrote:Yea. Still needs to be able to choose more options cause I start at like 3-4 different times depending on the day and whom I'm dming.

Most common, then. I'm trying to see if I can get a feel for aggregate player density.

If there was some sort of master log aggregation of all of the server logs, that would be easier; or maybe not.

UTC ?



I'm on GMT, and usually log in at 19:00 hours

Greenwich Mean Time is too "British" for some countries, so they developed Coordinated Universal Time - abbreviated as UTC (they couldn't even get the acronym right!).

So UTC = GMT

not a bloody clue how to figure your time chart out . . .. since I don't understand GMT time [nor do any of the myriad of sites I get sent to make it any clearer]

I am PST time zone I generally log in between 6-8 PM and play for a few hours

Arianna wrote:not a bloody clue how to figure your time chart out . . .. since I don't understand GMT time [nor do any of the myriad of sites I get sent to make it any clearer]

I am PST time zone I generally log in between 6-8 PM and play for a few hours

PST is UTC - 8, so to get UTC add 8 to your time, ie 2-4 am

So you should probably select the 0200-0359 slot.

TheCrazyGoblin wrote:Greenwich Mean Time is too "British" for some countries, so they developed Coordinated Universal Time - abbreviated as UTC (they couldn't even get the acronym right!).

So UTC = GMT

hahah, idiots.

TheCrazyGoblin wrote:Greenwich Mean Time is too "British" for some countries, so they developed Coordinated Universal Time - abbreviated as UTC (they couldn't even get the acronym right!).

So UTC = GMT

I had a feeling it might be something like that.

WTF? Id answer if there was a simple understandable way to work out what time i logged on ... oh yeah like the one the whole world officially agreed on some time back in the day. *coughs* GMT

24:00 hour clock is simple. If the time is over 12:00, then subtract 12:00 hours from the time.

So, 20:00 - 12:00 = 8:00pm

Calculating GMT depends on your time zone. The US mainland has 4. GMT -8 (pacific), GMT -7 (Mountain), GMT -6 (Central), and GMT -5 (Eastern). Hawaii is GMT -11. They are 3 hours behind Pacific.

Hope that helps US members some. Search oin Google.com for GMT calculators. Lots out there.