<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I think the day the Metaverse started can be considered as "epoch time", that is, the number of seconds since 1/1/1970. However, that is not the issue.<br><br>One issue is that when events on a grid are setup on the grid's timezone, a region might be on a different timezone and a client might be hard-coded to PST. So getting folks to attend an event gets challenging if all regions on a grid are not on the same "clock".<br><br>Additionally, there are scripts that read the underlying clock on the server for a region. In a heterogeneous Metaverse where adjacent sims on a grid might be on opposite sides of the planet, one can see that writing a time for an event, or a script event would then be interpreted differently by a sim on the same timezone as the UGAIM, compared to a sim on a different timezone,
*or* a HyperGridded region on a third time zone.<br><br>So, it can get messy. Which is why we brought it up, so we could think about it a little bit.<br><br>Charles<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Robert Klein <rtkwebman@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> opensim-users@lists.berlios.de<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, January 19, 2009 3:25:26 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Opensim-users] Correcting Metaverse Time<br></font><br>
<br>I see what you mean Charles and maybe the need is to mimic our current planet<br>by settling on a Metaversal Time as the starting point (MTC or UTC) and<br>leave open the path for supporting local time zones for local needs? We have<br>multiple time zones in RL with a single and sensible starting point. Right<br>now the SLT standard just doesn't seem like a good starting point since<br>nobody else references it. You mention setting simulators to local time,<br>does that also show up correctly in the viewer? Is there some tweak to the<br>OpenSim software, the viewer, or is it just a matter of setting the server<br>time? Maybe have a setting in the viewr to show either local or MTC?<br><br>While we are on the subject, what about setting a day that the metaverse<br>started? RL has A.D. and B.C., what about this new universe having some sort<br>of starting point to celebrate? Maybe the first birthday of OpenSim? The<br>second? What do we call it? In the
future there may very well be a need to<br>reference the start of it all... just a thought. :)<br><br>-Robert<br><br><br><br>Certainly, those running grids and major standalones that are<br>HyperGridded can easily set their sims to UTC without any additional<br>prompting from us, and I have already done this with those I can<br>directly influence.<br><br>Now that we seem heading towards some semblance of a consensus, let me open<br>two itty-bitty "Pandora's Boxen" that others have described to me.<br><br>But, there are sims running in folks homes and on servers where for other<br>then OpenSim reasons, these folks wish the server (or desktop computer in<br>some cases) to run on the local timezone, where ever it is. These reasons<br>run from needing mail programs like Outlook to work correctly. These folks<br>end up at a disadvantage unless we can tell them how to ensure their OpenSim<br>clock is on UTC.<br><br>Another issue is that the SL client itself
seems to favor PST, so we have<br>client perceptions to deal with. Although as other clients gain some wider<br>use, this issue is likely to resolve itself over time.<br><br>I would not want either of these to stop a movement towards an OpenSim<br>Metaverse timezone, but, these are the two major issues that folks have<br>discussed with me that currently cause them angst.<br><br>With the highest respect to this illustrious group,<br><br>Charles Krinke<br><br><br>-- <br>View this message in context: <a href="http://n2.nabble.com/Correcting-Metaverse-Time-tp2179635p2184058.html" target="_blank">http://n2.nabble.com/Correcting-Metaverse-Time-tp2179635p2184058.html</a><br>Sent from the opensim-users mailing list archive at <a target="_blank" href="http://Nabble.com">Nabble.com</a>.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Opensim-users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Opensim-users@lists.berlios.de"
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