What's Metafilter Timezone?

May 22, 2002 5:13 AM

What's Metafilter Timezone? I live in Belgium (same time zone as Paris, Madrid or Amsterdam). I have observed that the Metafilter "midnight" is somewhere in what is my morning. Where is physiscally the server? In what time zone is Metafilter's midnight?

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posted by Baud to MetaFilter-Related at 5:13 AM (27 comments total)

Test.
posted by pracowity at 5:19 AM on May 22, 2002

GMT - 8, in California, USA, isn't it?
posted by crunchland at 5:22 AM on May 22, 2002

If's it's 5:19 there and 14:19 here (and probably 13:19 in Belgium), the server must be in California.
posted by pracowity at 5:22 AM on May 22, 2002

World Clock.
posted by pracowity at 5:24 AM on May 22, 2002

I believe the server is physically in New York City, in this fellow's apartment.
posted by macadamiaranch at 5:32 AM on May 22, 2002

it's three hours earlier than EST, which would make it PST. but i'm sure the server is in NYC. A-OK?
posted by quonsar at 5:49 AM on May 22, 2002

The server is in NY, USA, but I believe it maintains Matt Time^TM, which roughly corresponds to the Californians observe.

STOP! Matt Time^TM!
posted by NortonDC at 5:52 AM on May 22, 2002

> I believe the server is physically in New York City, in
> this fellow's apartment.

Does Matt know about this? He looks a bit shifty. And something about the way the picture is posed makes me expect to see an airliner coming in behind him.

This is just too confusing and frightening. I'm setting all of my clocks to Metafilter time and I'm recomending that you do the same. Join us, won't you?
posted by pracowity at 5:59 AM on May 22, 2002

*damn, know the guys will have to move the server to a secret location*
posted by clavdivs at 6:06 AM on May 22, 2002

I should have known you'd be in on this.

[recommending -- I can't spell when I'm all in a tizzy]
posted by pracowity at 6:12 AM on May 22, 2002

"I should have known you'd be in on this."

who, me?.
Are you calling me on the 'now/know" spelling error? i hope not because i feel like gutting someones ego today.

it's three hours earlier than EST, which would make it PST. but i'm sure the server is in NYC. A-OK?
no shit genius.

posted by clavdivs at 6:34 AM on May 22, 2002

> Are you calling me on the 'now/know" spelling error? i
> hope not because i feel like gutting someones ego today.

No, I'm calling myself on my earlier post. I am a promoter of free-form clavdivs. But if you got up on the wrong side of the hovering orbital platform today and gutting makes you feel good, gut away.
posted by pracowity at 6:44 AM on May 22, 2002

please be a bit more specific, as one who confuses even himself...."I should have known you'd be in on this". So what should you have not been in on?


posted by clavdivs at 7:09 AM on May 22, 2002

That you'd be in on the secret site of the server, the misleading time zone, the whole deadly plot, etc. Never mind.
posted by pracowity at 7:32 AM on May 22, 2002

Did the 'PST' in every timestamp give it away?
posted by jjg at 8:25 AM on May 22, 2002

The location of the server is secret, but it is known that it resides in a truck that is constantly on the move...it's a national security issue. If you will notice the 'PST' on the timestamp, that indicates Pacific Standard Time which is what we call 'California Time'. The fact that we are really using Pacific Daylight Time is a diversion so that the terrorists don't win.
posted by Mack Twain at 8:28 AM on May 22, 2002

> Did the 'PST' in every timestamp give it away?

Give away the location? No, because it's not there, it's in NY, which is EST or something, right?
posted by pracowity at 9:06 AM on May 22, 2002

pracowity knows too much .......
posted by urban greeting at 9:24 AM on May 22, 2002

The black helecopters will be dispatched shortly. Please don not be alarmed, as this is all just routine. The thermonuclear^TM devices aimed at your residences are an added feature of MetaFilter^TM. We hope that you will visit MetaFilter^TM, in your next lives.

Have a nice day.
posted by plemeljr at 9:29 AM on May 22, 2002

Man, that's a lousy picture of Jason. He's much scarier looking in person. I have lobbied unsuccessfully to have MeFi changed to EDT (it's actually running on PDT, "PST" regardless of what's appended to posts.) but no love.

I'm thinking I'll sneak in and do that during the next unscheduled MeFi outage.
posted by anildash at 10:38 AM on May 22, 2002

GMT! GMT! GMT! GMT! GMT! GMT! GMT! GMT! GMT!
posted by feelinglistless at 2:31 PM on May 22, 2002

DMT?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 3:28 PM on May 22, 2002

swatch time!
posted by Mick at 5:45 PM on May 22, 2002

that's internet time mister!
posted by rhyax at 8:53 PM on May 22, 2002

I vote for GMT, too. Anil, I'll take down the phalanx of black-suited commandos blocking elevator access to the Metafilter cleanroom in Jason's luxury condominium and hotwire the biometrics, while you rappel down the side of the building and enter through the French doors via his four-sided penthouse terrace. Don't fall in the heated pool.
posted by Mo Nickels at 5:20 AM on May 23, 2002

I was just gonna teach his cat to do it.
posted by anildash at 10:42 AM on May 23, 2002

Feature request:
Having the current PST time displayed next to the date on the front page would be very useful for determining whether a posting to a link will be helplessly too late for it to be read by anyone (like this one) or not.
posted by c3o at 5:05 PM on May 23, 2002