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"the change was made because people outside the UK asked for it."

InspectorGreenPen, where *do* you get your inside information?? (A question many have wondered about for a long time.)

I happen to know for a fact, as SylviaInCanada points out, that these two people outside the UK have begged for time-of-day stamps to be returned.

I and others have also pointed out that discussion board software available for at least the last 15 years allows users to select their own time zone for the time stamps on posts.

I myself would probably retain UK time, just because that is the time that applies for a large majority of people using this site and I prefer to know when they're posting by their time, to have an idea of when to expect them back without doing the arithmetic.

So can you tell us the source of your assertion? I haven't seen anything from the site management to that effect, myself.

Janey


I asked on fb for the change to be reversed ......... several times in fact, as they didn't respond!


On Feb 18, GR posted the following on one of those requests


...The reason the times were removed from posts is because we used GMT time and this was confusing for international members. We are currently looking into options that will allow us to put times up that will make sense for everyone




My response to that was:-

Genes Reunited .............. I AM an international member ....... and I'm one of a lot of international members who are most upset at the present system!

It was not at all confusing!

We're not fools you know ..... I can very easily deduct 8 hours from GMT, or add 8 hours to "my" time to determine what it is in GMT!!



There were also comments similar to mine from other posters.




I asked the question again on Friday



and I will be re-posting it later tonight



all in the hope that GR will eventually respond.





BTW ................... I know of at least 6 other international members who do not like the change


I do not know of even one who does like it.





so again, we have the somewhat mythical "other members"



sylvia

I also am one of the members outside England and I did not ask for the change. I didnt have problems with the GMT times, but then my arithmatic is simpler than those of Janey and Sylvia. Add on 12 hours, then depending whether it is summer here or there add or subtract and hour for summer time, but I must admit when that change is made I have to think hard for a short time, but having had a score of 91% in a modern maths exam back in 1974 I think I can say I dont have too many problems there.

Huia.

posted at 16.21 NZ summer time, Monday 28 Feb.,
3.21 GMT winter time, Monday 28 Feb.

I put up a thread to inform anybody who wasn't reading here, but for those who have posted in this thread -- today on GR's Facebook page (where we must go to see their responses to problems raised):


"We will be changing this back to show the time of the posts but you may not see the change for a few weeks yet."


Yay!

GR staff returned today from manning their operations in the WDYTYA event and replied that the timings will be returning, in a few weeks' time.


I use GMT and BST

YAY!!!



GR replied to my question on fb, finally:-


Genes Reunited

Hi Scilly,

We will be changing this back to show the time of the posts but you may not see the change for a few weeks yet.
10 hours ago




so I guess they replied at about 9:35 am GMT (1:35 am PST)





11:35 am PST
7:35 pm GMT
19:35 GMT





:)))))))



sylvia

Signing off at 23.28 :-)

And I was so hoping to hear back from InspectorGreenPen ....

lol!

4:42 pm PST
0:42 am GMT

Oh all right.

7:47 pm ... what the heck is this place called ... EST at this time of year I guess.

12:47 a.m. the next day GMT.

And I refuse to use the 24-hour clock, so don't even try that.

...... Sylvia, you can't do that. You can't say "0:xx a.m.", you have to say "12:xx a.m." or "00:xx". I'm pretty sure. You're just trying to sneak the nasty 24-hour clock in there, I know.

That and commas for decimals and spaces for commas, stupidities seeping out of Quebec, if I may be ethnocentric for a moment, which needs to realize it lives in North America, not Europe.

But Janey


it IS 00.42 am GMT, as well as 00.42 GMT


if they can put 01:42 am GMT


why can't I use 00.42 am????




as well as the stupid American way of doing dates



which I can never work out because I can't tell my 90/06/06 from my 90/06/06!



that's why I almost always write out the month!



sylvia

Well Its 1408 UK.Time 1/3/11.and the Mad March hares are all at GR. **M**

If you have trouble working out the 24 hour clock, do what I did years ago. If you remember 'old money' then you'll know that there were 12 pence to a shilling. Therefore, for example, 20 pence = 1/8d (one shilling and eight pence). Converting old pence to hours 13:00 = 1/1, 14:00 = 1/2, 15:00 = 1/3 and so forth, the last number of each being the 12 hour clock time.

Probably makes me look stupid (which I am when it comes to maths), but it worked for me!

I don't have trouble with the %$#@ thing, I just can't stand it on principle. ;)

It's a local thing. In "the rest of Canada", in English, we say the meeting started at 10:30 a.m., I went to bed at 11:00 p.m., and so on. But in Quebec, they have meetings at 16h00 and the like. But you know perfectly well that nobody actually says they went to bed at 23h00.

It's a stupid affectation, just like writing that you paid 15 000,00 $ for your car; dollars are a North American currency, this is North America, and we write it $15,000.00. It isn't a matter of Eng/Fr, it's a matter of NA/continental Europe. Quebec isn't in continental Europe. ;)

And Syvia, whoever wrote "01:42 am GMT" was just as bad. ;)

"a.m." and "p.m." go only with the 12-hour clock. That's the whole deal with the 24-hour clock; no a.m. or p.m.

Does anybody actually have a 24-hour clock .....? ;)

train stations?

Sylvia, I meant people. ;)

:)))



(I know you did)


just being contrary






maybe a train freak???????

I'll check the walls in Royston's caf when we watch tonight. ;)

lol!!!

Don't think I'm gonna lose any sleep over it. Enjoy your T at 3 PST, gals and good night!

11 pm UCT (UK Cocoa Time)