Caffiene Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 (edited) CST = Central Standard Time CDT = Central Daylight Time However, a lot of times people (including myself!) will just use the Standard Time abbreviation, since, at least in the US, nearly everywhere uses Daylight Savings, so you don't have to worry about one place being on Daylight Savings while another place isn't, which would lead to some confusing time differences. I'm not sure whether that's the case for anywhere else, since I've never needed to look at time zones outside the US. Do people in the US not already know the 3 main times in the US relative to where they live anyway, so that using an actual official timezone designation isnt needed? I assumed it would be people outside the US (like me) who would be most likely to need official time zone designations. Edited September 28, 2013 by Caffiene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klarg1 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Hmm - the countdown appears to be based on the browser local time. ie - it's telling me the Kickstarter starts at 8am on Tuesday, New Zealand time. That would make it 2pm on September 30 in Texas. no. Reaper Miniatures October 1, 2013. 9 am CST. Wonderful! NOT! I have one all day meeting next week, a project kick-off meeting with the client.... care to ,,, GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS? Yup, you got it... KS2 launch day... and boss has already said no cell phones in the meeting :( *cough* I think I am starting to get a cold.... I feel your pain. I have a series of all-day technical sessions coming up this week. The only good news is that my presentation is Wednesday, so at least I can watch the KS when I am not in meetings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Goodchild Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 The street on which I live is being completely rebuilt from the ground up.The morons pouring the concrete curbs severed my Internet cable (and at least seven others) and failed to tell the cable company. I've placed a service call with the cable company but it's going to be a big job; if I don't have my broadband Internet back by Tuesday there will be... consequences Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnus Mercury Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Do people in the US not already know the 3 main times in the US relative to where they live anyway, so that using an actual official timezone designation isnt needed? I assumed it would be people outside the US (like me) who would be most likely to need official time zone designations. I have trouble remembering which time zone I'm in, never mind whether or not it's daylight savings... (then again, I think I'm temporally challenged). Also (because someone asked about duration), I expect it to be a 30-day KS campaign. That will have it ending early on Halloween, which is thematic and avoids the issue I mentioned previous about ending while most families might be out trick-or-treating. What are the odds that the KS will be Halloween themed? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klarg1 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 CST = Central Standard Time CDT = Central Daylight Time However, a lot of times people (including myself!) will just use the Standard Time abbreviation, since, at least in the US, nearly everywhere uses Daylight Savings, so you don't have to worry about one place being on Daylight Savings while another place isn't, which would lead to some confusing time differences. I'm not sure whether that's the case for anywhere else, since I've never needed to look at time zones outside the US. Do people in the US not already know the 3 main times in the US relative to where they live anyway, so that using an actual official timezone designation isnt needed? I assumed it would be people outside the US (like me) who would be most likely to need official time zone designations. The continental U.S. (*) inlcudes 4 time zones... or were you discounting one of them intentionally? I routinely schedule meetings with people living in Pacific time, so the 3hr time difference from East Coast time features prominently in my professional life. (To say nothing of the 9.5 hour difference between EDT and IST. :P ) * - which is an odd statement, since Alaska is part of the same continent, but there you have it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Goodchild Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 I took it to mean the three time zones outside of one's own but I could be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artists Wren Posted September 28, 2013 Artists Share Posted September 28, 2013 I have actually painted more of my Bones than I would have expected to by now, so I don't feel guilty at all! (Granted the number is paltry next to the number of Bones I have, but I'm counting it as a win, go me.) 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unknowable Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 (edited) Honestly with timezones I am always confused as to why people don't just go "happeniong as **:** GMT" as most of the world runs off a GMT schedule and you don't have to worry about anything else.Also, I haven't even recieved my big box of miniatures yet (got one from ebay) and have a stack at my house unpainted as it is... But I plan on getting everything I can while I can and for the value and variety that it represents. Edited September 28, 2013 by unknowable 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caffiene Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 I took it to mean the three time zones outside of one's own but I could be wrong. Sure, we'll go with that explanation :P Nah... I just conflated Mountain and Central in my head. Got it wrong as a non-USian (and demonstrating why using official time zone abbreviations is most important for us non-US folks :P). I was just thinking more in terms of how I can describe the Australian time zones pretty well even though different Aussie states do use daylight savings at different times (and some dont use it at all) and without knowing the proper names of the time zones, and I figured US people would know US times pretty well in the same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talae Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 No daylight savings here in Arizona. There are other places in the US that refuse to join in as well. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattnuke Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 No daylight savings here in Arizona. There are other places in the US that refuse to join in as well. I wish we would all do away with that system. I blame Ben Franklin! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokingwreckage Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Caffeine, Australian East Coast has the same time zone as Singapore and, ah, Vladivostok, IIRC. In any case, GMT +10.00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caffiene Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Caffeine, Australian East Coast has the same time zone as Singapore and, ah, Vladivostok, IIRC. In any case, GMT +10.00 Yeah, I know its GMT+10. My problem was working out whether CST meant actual CST (GMT-6) or CDT (GMT-5). Need both ends to do a conversion. Once the countdown timer was fixed it was all fine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maglok Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 My girlfriend is actually bouncy herself as well. Not that she paints much, but she likes to see me bouncy. :) Also she likes playing in our campaigns with minis that are representative of what they are facing. So awesome! :D Bring on the Bones! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator OneBoot Posted September 28, 2013 Moderator Share Posted September 28, 2013 No daylight savings here in Arizona. There are other places in the US that refuse to join in as well. Arizona was actually the exact place I had in mind when I said that "nearly everywhere" used daylight savings. Y'all just had to be rebels, didn't ya? Huzzah! --OneBoot :D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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