Thursday, December 18, 2008

Proposal: Making GMT official

Hit quorum of for votes—Rodlen

Adminned at 18 Dec 2008 22:29:24 UTC

Add the following to the end of the glossary section Timespans:

*For the purpose of all rules, time in Blognomic is in GMT.

posted by Rodlen at 18 Dec 2008 16:21:00 UTC Comments (20)

Comments

Yoda:

18-12-2008 16:27:32 UTC

From the glossary section Timespans: “References to “a day” (as an entity rather than a duration, eg. “Sunday”) refer to that day in the timezone of the BlogNomic blog, which is considered to be GMT for all purposes.”

I suppose this wouldn’t hurt for clarity, so for .

Klisz:

18-12-2008 16:37:41 UTC

for

eljefe:

18-12-2008 16:45:26 UTC

for

zuff:

18-12-2008 17:02:50 UTC

against make it utc

Rodlen:

18-12-2008 17:04:30 UTC

UTC and GMT are the same, it appears.

Rodlen:

18-12-2008 17:05:03 UTC

GMT was used in the ruleset already.

teucer:

18-12-2008 17:10:27 UTC

for

zuff:

18-12-2008 17:13:04 UTC

UTC and GMT are not the same.

arthexis: he/him

18-12-2008 17:14:17 UTC

for GMT is fine. Actually, any timezone is fine, the point is just to get one nailed down and avoid inconsistencies across rules.

Amnistar: he/him

18-12-2008 18:37:51 UTC

for

Klisz:

18-12-2008 18:49:05 UTC

Really, I wish it could be Mountain Time. That would make things easier for me.

Yoda:

18-12-2008 23:17:05 UTC

UTC and GMT are the same thing.

Yoda:

18-12-2008 23:17:24 UTC

If you don’t think so, look it up.

Darknight: he/him

18-12-2008 23:19:49 UTC

for

Yoda:

19-12-2008 01:33:34 UTC

FYI, any votes made after now do not count because they would be made during a hiatus.

zuff:

19-12-2008 02:12:11 UTC

yoda, no. Leap seconds.

Yoda:

19-12-2008 02:15:35 UTC

?

Rodlen:

19-12-2008 02:16:41 UTC

What?

Klisz:

19-12-2008 03:18:14 UTC

It’s a special principle of time. Leap seconds are made on any third Friday in any month after March in a year before 2052. They completely nullify the fact that we can’t vote on proposals.

kaddar:

19-12-2008 06:26:47 UTC

for