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The New Timezones

Postby Kathleen » 12 Aug 2013, 12:28

Newer, better timezones for our modern age.
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Re: The New Timezones

Postby Jimor » 12 Aug 2013, 12:50

I work with musicians a lot, and... well... you could do 2 or 3 more episodes of this just covering the various Musician Time Zones.
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Re: The New Timezones

Postby Drecon » 12 Aug 2013, 13:54

The biggest problem with PTT is that everyone is going to be calling it PTT-time... (yes, that is Party Time Time Time)

And as for daylight savings time: it might not actually be too useful in our current economy. Since everyone is staying up 'till about 2 AM on average... it might actually be costing us more energy in total.
Has there ever been any serious research done into that? It might be a thing of the past really.
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Re: The New Timezones

Postby Elomin Sha » 12 Aug 2013, 13:58

I was thinking about Nate and his LoadingReadyLabs theme a few days ago. Good to hear it again.
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Re: The New Timezones

Postby Vigafre » 12 Aug 2013, 14:02

Drecon wrote:And as for daylight savings time: it might not actually be too useful in our current economy. Since everyone is staying up 'till about 2 AM on average... it might actually be costing us more energy in total.
Has there ever been any serious research done into that? It might be a thing of the past really.

As far as I know, it's essentially just a relic now.
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Re: The New Timezones

Postby Can't Wear Hats » 12 Aug 2013, 14:02

What's the conversion from PTT to Hammer Time (or "HT")?
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Re: The New Timezones

Postby General Michi » 12 Aug 2013, 14:08

Drecon wrote:The biggest problem with PTT is that everyone is going to be calling it PTT-time... (yes, that is Party Time Time Time)


That was my favourite line and you made it better <3
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Re: The New Timezones

Postby Lord Chrusher » 12 Aug 2013, 14:43

I think we should be on daylight savings time year round. It does make things needlessly complicated for little reason.
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Re: The New Timezones

Postby korvys » 12 Aug 2013, 14:51

Vigafre wrote:
Drecon wrote:And as for daylight savings time: it might not actually be too useful in our current economy. Since everyone is staying up 'till about 2 AM on average... it might actually be costing us more energy in total.
Has there ever been any serious research done into that? It might be a thing of the past really.

As far as I know, it's essentially just a relic now.

Check out this video from CGPGrey (also, check out all of his videos, they are great.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84aWtseb2-4

Australia only does daylight-savings time for half the states. I live in one that does. I work in one that does not.

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Re: The New Timezones

Postby Vigafre » 12 Aug 2013, 15:14

Honestly, I think they should just fall back 30 minutes and leave it.
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Re: The New Timezones

Postby Lurkon » 12 Aug 2013, 16:16

So good to see a Loading Ready Labs. Just leaves me feeling happy.
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Re: The New Timezones

Postby Foxmar » 12 Aug 2013, 16:21

Lurkon wrote:So good to see a Loading Ready Labs. Just leaves me feeling happy.


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Re: The New Timezones

Postby kade_zero » 12 Aug 2013, 16:38

Graham and James become one from approximately 3m 20s to 5m 03s :)
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Re: The New Timezones

Postby phlip » 12 Aug 2013, 17:14

kade_zero wrote:Graham and James become one from approximately 3m 20s to 5m 03s :)

That tangent, on the legs... Have ye learned nothing from the trials of Abby?

Also, I'd be more than willing to give a new system of timezones a try... I curse this round earth every time I'm getting ready to leave for work on Friday, and get a notification that LRRMtG has started streaming...

Also: Daylight Savings can eat all the dicks. One of the main points of the idea was that it would save on lighting by having people awake for more of the time the sun is up... but electricity usage these days is dominated by things like computers that use the same amount of power DST or no, so the benefits are either negligible, 0, or even negative, depending on how much air conditioners are used in the area in question. Add the negative effects of fucking with everyone sleep schedule twice a year, and the resulting biannual loss of productivity and spike in the road toll, and the whole thing seems like a bad plan.
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Re: The New Timezones

Postby plummeting_sloth » 12 Aug 2013, 18:06

General Michi wrote:
Drecon wrote:The biggest problem with PTT is that everyone is going to be calling it PTT-time... (yes, that is Party Time Time Time)


That was my favourite line and you made it better <3


I was really hoping there would be a Pirate Time, which would nicely tie together the last time I remember that music.
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Re: The New Timezones

Postby Cardshark » 12 Aug 2013, 18:43

I must be the only one that has been so beaten down by being told that it isn't Daylight Savings Time and that it's just Daylight Saving Time. Either way, it's worthless.

Also, ZZT is basically the same as JST(Jewish Std Time) except that JST is valid any time throughout the day.
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Re: The New Timezones

Postby Mowinckel » 12 Aug 2013, 18:44

Foxmar wrote:
Lurkon wrote:So good to see a Loading Ready Labs. Just leaves me feeling happy.


I second this!



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Re: The New Timezones

Postby LadyRhian » 12 Aug 2013, 22:33

Locally, some friends of mine also deal with SRT- Standard Ruben Time, which adds at least 45-90 minutes to any time to meet. When one of us will be late, we will joke that we are 'Running on Ruben Time".

Don't also forget: OMT Time- this is Civilization "One More Turn" time. There is also TVTT- TV Tropes Time- essentially endless- say goodbye- you will NEVER see this person again. If you do, you are mandated to check the temperature in Hell before greeting said person. And VT- Valve Time, which is when the numbers drop off the clock and it reads, "Whenever".
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Re: The New Timezones

Postby My pseudonym is Ix » 13 Aug 2013, 01:56

Interestingly, the British government actually tried getting rid of BST (our equivalent to Daylight Savings) as an experiment, but the northern Scots complained vehemently for reasons I don't quite remember off the top of ma head and the idea got shut down. I know this because there is a news item about it every f***ing year when the clocks change because bankers in the city want to synchronise watches with the European markets.
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Re: The New Timezones

Postby Master Gunner » 13 Aug 2013, 03:35

Damn Scots, they ruined Scotland!
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Postby My pseudonym is Ix » 13 Aug 2013, 03:38

...just out of interest, is that an Irish history reference or are we just railing against the nation of Scotland for the hell of it?
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Re: The New Timezones

Postby Lord Chrusher » 13 Aug 2013, 04:16

One quite confusing thing is that Queensland does not follow daylight savings time but New South Wales, the state directly south of Queensland, does. If you live in the northern most part of New South Wales like one of my closest friends, the closest city (and airport with regular service) is Gold Coast in Queensland which is an hour off half the year. This leads to wonderful things such as arriving before you left on a 45 minute drive.
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Re: The New Timezones

Postby phlip » 13 Aug 2013, 05:11

Hey, at least the daylight saving time changeovers are at the same time in all the Australian states that have DST... that used to not be the case. So normally NSW is 30 minutes ahead of SA, then NSW would get DST and become 90 minutes ahead of SA, then a couple weeks later SA would get DST and it'd be back to a 30 minute difference.
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Re: The New Timezones

Postby Can't Wear Hats » 13 Aug 2013, 08:15

My pseudonym is Ix wrote:...just out of interest, is that an Irish history reference or are we just railing against the nation of Scotland for the hell of it?

Professional Scotsman Groundskeeper Willie explains: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LnVIo3Bwzs
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Re: The New Timezones

Postby Bebop Man » 13 Aug 2013, 08:37

Awww it's the Talk Like a Pirate track in the background!
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