<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Dear Robert:<br><br>Thats a good point and I think worth a "+1".<br><br>Lets just move forward and declare the OpenSim part of the Metaverse to be based on UTC for events, scripts and whatever.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<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> Tuesday, January 20, 2009 1:52:19 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Opensim-users] Correcting Metaverse Time<br></font><br>
<br>When I first approached this topic I failed to separate out the server from<br>the viewer. Servers are what they are and I am not proposing we touch that<br>part. Just trying to move us away from using SLT for activities and such<br>because it gets confusing. I for one plan on leaving the whole SL thing<br>behind in favor of OpenSim and using constant references to SLT will be<br>clumsy for clients new to the metaverse.<br><br>So maybe the questions for this thread becomes:<br>What would be the best ways we can start using UTC now? Event planning?<br>Scripting? Activities on our own regions? Do we have to wait for the viewers<br>to be adjusted? Is it as simple as we just start doing stuff in UTC and not<br>reference SLT anymore? What parts do we leave for the future?<br><br><br>-Robert<br><br><br>Stefan Andersson wrote:<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>>> If this isn't universally the case (e.g. for script functions) then we<br>>>
probably need to change it so that it is always > the case. We appear to<br>>> be pretty happy using UTC for data purposes and we should aim for<br>>> consistency in this. Nobody > should need to set their server to any<br>>> particular time zone.<br>> +1 on not having to change server time.<br>> <br>> I'm only proposing we're using UTC as our internal standard. Whatever is<br>> communicated out thru viewers, script functions et c is something else<br>> entirely, and rather contextual.<br>> <br>> All other times should be decorated with timezone, offset, or both.<br>> <br>> /Stefan<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"
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