Timing for big server events

[Egon the Monkey]

I've noticed that a lot of fairly big and influential DM events tend to go off at 8PM EST or thereabouts on weekends. That's great for east coast US players, but a real bind for European players on the server. I'd like to bring up the idea of hosting some of these events on Saturday or Sunday afternoons EST, maybe four hours earlier. This would mean evenings/nights European time, so they'd be accessible to another section of players.

[Letsplayforfun]

That'd certainly be nice, but if i'm not mistaken some new DMs are in a good time zone for us european players, so it's only a matter of time since we get big events in playable timezone.

On the other hand, big events with 7 player logged on doesn't sound that good.

[johanmaxon]

Good would be instead of starting 8 pm est, starting 6 pm est. Most EST people can be around then, but atleast it's just midnight for us Europeans, and even if it is big, it is possible to be in bed 2 am instead of 4 am, which makes a rather big differance!

[Relinquish]

People have jobs, and most jobs don't get out until later at night, you need a European DM imo.

[johanmaxon]

Or you people just can stop with these 'Jobs'.... Gee!

[Drakill Tannan]

I would be fine if they were just on weekends. My school shecule doesn't let me log at such times during week days.

And it is certianly easier to sleep at 4am on saturdays (err.. sundays?) than fridays. some peopel work on saturdays.

Then again, most parties are on satruday nights... well at least thouse i hear of... hmm... real life? or EFU:A?

[Gippy]

It is difficult and there are a lot of factors that go into the timing of these things. Right now I would say that we've got all timezones pretty well covered for DMs though.

[General-shadow]

i live in scotland and since am a bum i spend most of my time om efu sad yes but i maintian my relationship and friends and alwas have plenty of time to take part in large events but still wouldent mind sunday ones .

[Talir]

I'd like to hold and run some things for you europeans myself as the events held this late affects me too.

[Velve]

No matter what timezone things are put up for, it will be a bad time for someone. Sadly just a matter of fact. But I'm sure European DM's are more likely to play at good time for them, anyway.

[Archon]

Can I also suggest that we use GMT times instead of EST, because quite frankly, coming from Australia, I have absolutely no idea what time 8pm EST is.

Cheers

[Semli]

haha g'day mate

[Garem]

Yay tangents. The plurality of players are American and EST is Howland's timezone and the timezone for where the server is physically located. These are the only factors I'm aware of as to why we use EST so frequently, although there's certainly no reason why you can't use whatever timezone you want for your event planning and so long as you note the GMT +/- then things will be peachy.

Unless I'm gravely mistaken, EST is at GMT -5 by the way.

[Underbard]

For the summer, we are on DST which is -4 rather than -5, which is normal EST.
 
  For every one else, do like I did and lose your damn job so you can be here when needed.

[Pup]

Just to help those who have trouble with timezone adjustments:

Set the forum time to GMT (it should be set to this by default).  Scroll down to the bottom.  It will tell you what time it is currently GMT.  Now look at your own clock.  The difference is your +/- GMT time.  It's just that easy.

There are easier ways to know the time, such as knowing your own timezone and having a basic understanding of what timezones are, but this will help you tremendously if you don't quite get what it's all about.

Now.  If you want to know the difference between your time and EST, CST, MST, or PST (the four main American timezones) just set your forum time to that time, then compare the difference with your own clock, like above.