How To Timezone
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 7:26 pm
Informational fun time for the following weeks until the rest of the world pushes their clocks forward an hour and the timezones are back to what they normally are:
I live on the US East Coast, meaning my timezone is GMT-5. With the current difference in daylight savings time adherence, I have moved ahead 1 hour while GMT has not moved to compensate. Therefore, until the end of the month my timezone is GMT-4.
SBT was created in GMT/UTC/whatever. Currently, most NA players have moved their clocks ahead by 1 hour. This means that if you are in NA, you add 1 hour to SBT to figure out the correct timing of a GC event.
In comparison, if you are NA and list a time assuming that SBT is measured in your local time zone (wrongly), all EU players should subtract 1 hour from the associated time to figure out the correct time to show up.
This is in effect until March 30, when the timezones align nicely again.
What does this mean:
-The player draft starts at SBT-2 for those who haven't swapped clocks forward yet, or SBT-1 for those who have. The scrim that follows will (assuming the draft doesn't overrun) then start at SBT for those who haven't moved the clocks forward or SBT+1 for those who have.
-The scrim on the 29th will start at SBT+1 for those who pushed their clocks forward.
edit: to our friends in other places, I'm not sure how your timezones work or when (or if) you observe DST. I would hope that this is easy enough to figure out that if you know when your country and area observe DST, you can figure it out.
I live on the US East Coast, meaning my timezone is GMT-5. With the current difference in daylight savings time adherence, I have moved ahead 1 hour while GMT has not moved to compensate. Therefore, until the end of the month my timezone is GMT-4.
SBT was created in GMT/UTC/whatever. Currently, most NA players have moved their clocks ahead by 1 hour. This means that if you are in NA, you add 1 hour to SBT to figure out the correct timing of a GC event.
In comparison, if you are NA and list a time assuming that SBT is measured in your local time zone (wrongly), all EU players should subtract 1 hour from the associated time to figure out the correct time to show up.
This is in effect until March 30, when the timezones align nicely again.
What does this mean:
-The player draft starts at SBT-2 for those who haven't swapped clocks forward yet, or SBT-1 for those who have. The scrim that follows will (assuming the draft doesn't overrun) then start at SBT for those who haven't moved the clocks forward or SBT+1 for those who have.
-The scrim on the 29th will start at SBT+1 for those who pushed their clocks forward.
edit: to our friends in other places, I'm not sure how your timezones work or when (or if) you observe DST. I would hope that this is easy enough to figure out that if you know when your country and area observe DST, you can figure it out.