[Pear]

I personally believe there is a need to have a displayable clock in the BBO showing relative time in a 24 hour format. To minimise overhead to the BBO system this clock might be displayed in the Main Lobby ONLY and only needs to show Hours:Minutes updated each minute. This would alleviate the irritating task of having to convert time anywhere in the world to your local time. It would also ignore Local Standard Time to Daylight Saving Time changes.
Displaying a BBO Clock would help tremendously when scheduling Meetings, Mentoring Sessions, and Tournaments, since all time schedules could be relative to BBO Time and not any particular global region and would remove confusion for anybody around the world. I feel this change would be only trivial from a programming point of view; a simple timer interupt and a general post to a specific window/address. I would appreciate any comments.

[Gerardo]

I'd use GMT, as it is the (international*) standard for this sort of thing.

*US uses it's own internal standard (big surprise), Canada follows the US and guess Russia and China have their own internal standard too (big countries expanding over the EW axis)

[barmar]

Isn't this why the tournament list shows times as minutes or hours from now, rather than as a clock time?

I'm not sure what "internal standard" Gerardp thinks the US uses. We have 4 time zones here, and most people just use whatever their local time is. None of them is consered a nationwide standard, although since the majority of the population live on the east and west coasts, Eastern and Pacific times are most often published.

[Gerardo]

Right, Barry.

"Internal standard": A way to indicate timezones which differs from the international one.
Forgot Europe as example, revolving around CET.

[mrdct]

Gerardo, on Feb 4 2007, 02:34 PM, said:

I'd use GMT, as it is the (international*) standard for this sort of thing.

*US uses it's own internal standard (big surprise), Canada follows the US and guess Russia and China have their own internal standard too (big countries expanding over the EW axis)

China actually has a single time zone for the whole country which is more-or-less geographically alligned to Beijing such that in the west of the country the sun gets up about 3 hours later than the east, which must be a drag for getting up in the morning but quite neat to enjoy lots of daylight after work in the evening.

[matmat]

we should just use the Julian Day

[mrdct]

... but I've just finished converting all my calendars to Gregorian!