<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Frank:<br><br>The issue came up with respect to implementing "events". Someone else indicated that certain scripts that use the underlying servers time with LSL calls would be affected. <br><br>So, it isnt a sun issue so much as a side affect on co-ordinating things from region to region with events, scripts and similar.<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> Frank W Sweet <fwsweet@backintyme.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 2:01:15
PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Opensim-users] Correcting Metaverse Time<br></font><br>
Charles Krinke wrote: "those running grids and major standalones that<br>are HyperGridded can easily set their sims to UTC without any<br>additional prompting from us..."<br><br>Umm. How? The "time" function was removed from the [sun] section of<br>opensim.ini because it had no effect.<br><br>Frank W Sweet<br>Backintyme Publishing<br><br>----- Original Message ----- <br>From: "Charles Krinke" <<a ymailto="mailto:cfk@pacbell.net" href="mailto:cfk@pacbell.net">cfk@pacbell.net</a>><br>To: <<a ymailto="mailto:opensim-users@lists.berlios.de" href="mailto:opensim-users@lists.berlios.de">opensim-users@lists.berlios.de</a>><br>Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 4:46 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Correcting Metaverse Time<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 <br>open two itty-bitty "Pandora's Boxen" that others have described to <br>me.<br><br>But, there are sims running in folks homes and on servers where for <br>other then OpenSim reasons, these folks wish the server (or desktop <br>computer in some cases) to run on the local timezone, where ever it <br>is. These reasons run from needing mail programs like Outlook to work <br>correctly. These folks end up at a disadvantage unless we can tell <br>them how to ensure their OpenSim clock is on UTC.<br><br>Another issue is that the SL client itself seems to favor PST, so we <br>have client perceptions to deal with. Although as other clients gain <br>some wider 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 <br>have
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>Opensim-users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Opensim-users@lists.berlios.de" href="mailto:Opensim-users@lists.berlios.de">Opensim-users@lists.berlios.de</a><br><a href="https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users" target="_blank">https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users</a><br></div></div></div></body></html>