Extra hour needed for server offset for those of us in the future

November 16, 2007 3:01 PM

Can we please have an extra hour added to the server offset options in our profiles to give +21? Now that all the time changes have shaken out for the summer I'm an hour off.

New Zealand is so far in the future the current settings can't cope, and I'm so crap at timezones that having it slightly off confuses me. So small change, not that important, but would be quite nice.

(and when we preview the post can we have the title added up there instead of the date? would be nice to see how it looks)

posted by shelleycat to Feature Requests at 3:01 PM (23 comments total)

There is no zone +21. That would be 9 hours past the dateline, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic.
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 3:03 PM on November 16, 2007

Ok, I'll add another hour of offset to the settings
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:05 PM on November 16, 2007

Thanks!

(and yes there is, it's daylight savings time here and is most definitely 21 hours ahead of where the server is)
posted by shelleycat at 3:08 PM on November 16, 2007

Steven, the MeFi time zone setting is relative to the server's "native time" (currently UTC-8). New Zealand is currently UTC+13, hence +21 relative to the MeFi server.
posted by RichardP at 3:09 PM on November 16, 2007

MeFi is such a Timezone.
posted by Wolfdog at 3:26 PM on November 16, 2007 [3 favorites]

There is no zone +21.

You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into: The Pancake Zone.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:30 PM on November 16, 2007 [1 favorite]

I thought it was the boyzone?
posted by rtha at 3:33 PM on November 16, 2007

Shelley: Have you tried simply approaching the speed of light so that all other relative time slows and you gain the hour back?
posted by klangklangston at 3:48 PM on November 16, 2007 [5 favorites]

I thought it was the boyzone?

No, the bozone.
posted by C17H19NO3 at 4:13 PM on November 16, 2007

Thank you. Same problem here.
posted by Wolof at 4:14 PM on November 16, 2007

Nope, now it's an hour slow. I'm at GMT + 10' 30". And not very observant.
posted by Wolof at 4:16 PM on November 16, 2007

Who dares tread into the flozone?
posted by cortex (staff) at 4:22 PM on November 16, 2007

Shelley: Have you tried simply approaching the speed of light so that all other relative time slows and you gain the hour back?

But I like being in the future, I get to do everything first! I can tell you right now for example, that Saturday afternoon is lovely and a really nice day to go out for a walk. Which I'm about to do.
posted by shelleycat at 4:32 PM on November 16, 2007

itym "which i will have been about to have done"
posted by cortex (staff) at 4:36 PM on November 16, 2007

"But I like being in the future, I get to do everything first! I can tell you right now for example, that Saturday afternoon is lovely and a really nice day to go out for a walk. Which I'm about to do."

Oh, I wasn't telling you to speed up so as to lose the whole 21 hours. That would be ridiculous, you sharing a time zone with all of us pre-Cambrians on PDT. I was just saying that you should relativize to the Bronze Age of Perth, or whoever's an hour behind you.
posted by klangklangston at 4:41 PM on November 16, 2007 [1 favorite]

I can tell you right now for example, that Saturday afternoon is lovely and a really nice day to go out for a walk

Yeah, if you like bitter cold and snow and icy roads and death.
posted by C17H19NO3 at 5:40 PM on November 16, 2007

“Yeah, if you like bitter cold and snow and icy roads and death.”

Well...yeah. You say that like it's unusual.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 7:36 PM on November 16, 2007

Sorry EB, first winter storm of the season today, and I am cranky because of it :P
posted by C17H19NO3 at 8:45 PM on November 16, 2007

Yeah, if you like bitter cold and snow and icy roads and death.
Sounds like a party to me.
posted by deborah at 9:11 PM on November 16, 2007

I've refused to put my clocks back, because I will not waste that lovely daylight in the early am when I am sleeping. Now *that* is timezone hassle for you. BST (bonaldi standard time) ftw

And so worth it, when I get an extra hour of daylight in the evening, and everyone else thinks it gets dark at four. I still get up at "noon", so my body's completely fooled heh heh heh.
posted by bonaldi at 9:34 PM on November 16, 2007

I take great comfort in knowing New Zealand exists. It means that the Apocalypse won't happen until at least the day after tomorrow.
posted by Malor at 11:46 AM on November 17, 2007

Hmm. Yeah, I signed up in October 2002, and didn't pay a cent! Musta been during one of those brief free windows.
posted by lazaruslong at 2:47 PM on November 18, 2007

Oops.
posted by lazaruslong at 2:47 PM on November 18, 2007