Poll: Universal Time

[Oreb]

Please Explain Why

[Oreb]

Why doesn't anyone say why they chose yes or no, or... is it because you don't know why?

[ILikeProgramming]

This is a multiple-country game and times might be hard to scedule from different time zones.

[Oreb]

This is a multiple-country game and times might be hard to scedule from different time zones.

That's exactly why i started the pole!

[Viliam]

My idea of Wesnoth time:

Give all 24 hours some names. For example "The hour of elf", "The hour of bat", "The hour of revenant",...

Somewhere in the game should be displayed the clock with the hours - both names and numbers. Now... the name-to-number relation depends on the time zone of the player. So for example one player would see:

12:00 - The hour of elf
13:00 - The hour of bat
14:00 - The hour of ogre

but the person in the next time zone would see:

12:00 - The hour of bat
13:00 - The hour of ogre
14:00 - The hour of drake

So if they say "let's play again tomorrow at the hour of ogre", both players mean the same time. However, the system does not make anyone feel like his/her time zone is the "correct" one... because is does not make sense to say whether "the hour of bat" really should be 13:00 or 12:00.

[irrevenant]

Hmm, I'm not sure about the sound of that: "Hey, you up for some multiplayer at quarter-past bat?".

[scott]

Couldn't you just say I'll see you at 0000Z? Many digital watches support a 2nd time zone, and mine is GMT.

[Tomsik]

I really like Viliam idea, i want it in game!
(i know, its not too creative post)

EDIT:
my ideas for names(hours in GMT +0 zone)

0:00 - hour of spectre
1:00 - hour of revenant
2:00 - hour of bat
3:00 - hour of goblin
4:00 - hour of saurian
5:00 - hour of ghoul
6:00 - hour of yeti
7:00 - hour of gryphon
8:00 - hour of elf
9:00 - hour of dwarf
10:00 - hour of berserker
11:00 - hour of ranger
12:00 - hour of flameheart
13:00 - hour of wose
14:00 - hour of bowman
15:00 - hour of lancer
16:00 - hour of flare
17:00 - hour of merman
18:00 - hour of sylph
19:00 - hour of naga
20:00 - hour of outrider
21:00 - hour of myrmidon
22:00 - hour of runemaster
23:00 - hour of thunderer

[lwa]

Maybe some preprocessing into the chat textfield could do the job.
For exemple:
hour(14:00)
could be translated from host local time to UTC for the server then translated again to destination localtime.
The day may change from a zone to another, also.

[scott]

Simpler still you could use the Wesnothian day.
Dawn (1-4)
Morning (1-4)
Afternoon (1-4)
Dusk (1-4)
First Watch (1-4)
Second Watch (1-4)

You add the appropriate graphic to the MP lobby so people know what time it is "in Wesnoth." That way people don't need to learn the names of each hour.

The North Wind had 24 distinct time-of-day pictures made for it.

[DavidByron]

So if they say "let's play again tomorrow at the hour of ogre", both players mean the same time

I think Edward de Bono has suggested something similar for real world time. he suggests it would be more practical for everyone to have the same time (although different times would mean eg. "daybreak" to different people) and different seasons / months (but everyone's winter/January would mean the same - the coldest month) wherever they are on the planet -- instead of vice-versa.

But you'd be better off using GMT wouldn't you?

[unsung]

I really like Viliam idea, i want it in game!
(i know, its not too creative post)

EDIT:
my ideas for names(hours in GMT +0 zone)

0:00 - hour of spectre
1:00 - hour of revenant
2:00 - hour of bat
3:00 - hour of goblin
4:00 - hour of saurian
5:00 - hour of ghoul
6:00 - hour of yeti
7:00 - hour of gryphon
8:00 - hour of elf
9:00 - hour of dwarf
10:00 - hour of berserker
11:00 - hour of ranger
12:00 - hour of flameheart
13:00 - hour of wose
14:00 - hour of bowman
15:00 - hour of lancer
16:00 - hour of flare
17:00 - hour of merman
18:00 - hour of sylph
19:00 - hour of naga
20:00 - hour of outrider
21:00 - hour of myrmidon
22:00 - hour of runemaster
23:00 - hour of thunderer

hour of the then thosse names.
unless it was something like hour of psychosis.

[dtw]

Simpler still you could use the Wesnothian day.
Dawn (1-4)
Morning (1-4)
Afternoon (1-4)
Dusk (1-4)
First Watch (1-4)
Second Watch (1-4)

You add the appropriate graphic to the MP lobby so people know what time it is "in Wesnoth." That way people don't need to learn the names of each hour.

The North Wind had 24 distinct time-of-day pictures made for it.

Awesome idea

[Tomsik]

maybe both, image and name of hour below

[Cuyo Quiz]

Dawn (1-4)
Morning (1-4)
Afternoon (1-4)
Dusk (1-4)
First Watch (1-4)
Second Watch (1-4)

For each of these we could have four adjectives too. So you could meet someone "at the brink of dawn" or "at the end of dusk". However, i'm having troubles to coin four adjectives that fit.