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Now it shows 4 hours and 50 minutes and it's still showing the same game...

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Of course it is - because I got a poor score this time around. The ghost in the machine saw its opportunity and pounced the second I didn't get a top 10 - said aha! Let's let a 12-hour amount of people to play once I get a bad score.

Nah, seriously, if I was more paranoid, I might this was the case as at times it does seem that I get shafted (and it does seem to happen to me more than everyone else combined) at seemingly random times.

However, seriously, though, it would be nice to see one of these glitches/freezes/etc. actually work in my favor for once instead of the other way around. (rolleyes)

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>> Daylight savings time messes up our server software's scheduling, which is a real
>> annoyance (and a reason why I may change all games to GMT to keep things simple).

yep, it'd make life easier. GMT is a constant, it's not a moveable feast.

Do either of these posts, from 9 years ago, ring a bell?

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Date: 12 Feb 2000
Time: 1345 Zulu (GMT/UT)(I'm in UT -5)

I'm for it. It's the military method and it's the aviation method. I've been using these all my adult life. I'm definitely for it. (Americans would call today 2/12/00, europeans would call it 12/2/00. Confusing, no? Yes!) Since we have a world-wide group, a common time is fair. And since we already have a universal time in place at zero meridian, why not use it? Get us all on the same clock.



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posted by Gunslinger:

In aviation, actually we need to know both UT and local time. When talking to other aircraft, controllers et al in other parts of the world, it's a great help to have a common time reference. We also need to know more than one local time (origin of flight, waypoints and destination times.) Does that get confusing? You bet it does, that's why UT (GMT) is a great help. Many groundpounders (passengers, people meeting aircraft and the general non-flying population) have trouble dealing with concepts outside their immediate frame of reference, so we cater to them with their own local times.

Another concept a lot of Americans can't seem to handle is 24-hour (military) time. Aviation uses it everywhere except on posted schedules in the US.

And altitude? Easy to say "we were flying at 39,000 feet." Well, is that MSL (above Mean Sea Level) or AGL (Above Ground Level)? Altimeters must be adjusted for the barometric pressure at destination ground level in order to effect a descent and land at Zero feet.



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