Time is off

It appears that the time is still incorrect. I entered a note at 21:10 today (March 3rd)and the site shows the entry as 03:10 tomorrow (March 4th).

I agree, The way it used to work for me was the new day would start at 23:00.
I think it was daylight savings time that caused the 1 hour discreppancy.
Since the maintainance the new day seems to start at 16:00.
By "new day" I mean that is when my daily limit gets resset, and entry date flips to next day.
btw I am in Pacific time zone.
Mike

I never said I had fixed the time issues on the various pages. :) I said I had fixed the issues with the background jobs that update the various lists and scores. That stuff will have to wait until I have the time. Until then, the server is running in the UTC timezone and any part of the site not specifically taking your timezone into account will run in UTC.
-dr

i'm a meteorologist… and likewise with pilots, we know that the WORLD runs on UTC. maybe it ought to be the "site time" :)

I don't mean to be rude but could someone explain UTC…The time is not that important . I am just happy to have the site up and running..

(Coordinated Universal Time) The international time standard (formerly Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT). Zero hours UTC is midnight in Greenwich, England, which is located at 0 degrees longitude. Everything east of Greenwich (up to 180 degrees) is later in time; everything west is earlier. There are 42 time authorities around the world that are constantly synchronizing with each other. In the U.S., the time authorities are located at the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) and the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST).

Saskatchewan is at UTC -6:00, so if the server is using UTC time everything we enter will be off by 6 hours.

Thank you both for the explaination. I did not know it was a new name for GMT.

aw come on bdk you didn't see the full page notices in the paper that they changed the name. why after years and years being known by one name would they need to change the name i do not know … maybe too much time on their hands at the national nerd convention.

It is also referred to as Zulu time. Well at least it is the the amateur radio world, maybe us hams are just different?

It is also referred to as Zulu time.

Those of us in the aviation world still use Zulu time also.
-dr

As do many areas in the Armed Forces refer as Zulu Time. But it was always known as Greenwich Mean Time. I think when used over the radio Zulu is heard more clearly than Greenwich hence they use Zulu. Please don't mind us old farts who also would have stayed with the old measurement system instead of metric. Call them what you will many of us old farts still think of it as Greenwich and an inch is still an inch (unless your talking about fishing or…).

Interesting! I never knew that Greenwich time and Zulu time were the same. And now a new name, UTC, that if you were to have the letters in the same order of the words would actually be CUT.

And I as well did not see any newspaper article, nor hear any radio/TV news about it. How long ago did this name change happen?

I am glad to hear that I am not the only one who was out of the loop on this one……

I never knew about it either. I don't think too many people knew about as it's something that wouldn't affect most of us

one would have to ask a person like rudy k when and why they did the change as i am sure that a gentlemen with his talents would be able to shed some light on this timely question. gouche did a fine job of telling us what it was but the question now is why the name change?

You are right that the letters are not in order but that's not only for English. The French wanted TUC since ththey call it temps universel coordonné. So UTC was settled on as a compromise. Check out more on Wikipedia .
-dr

Thanks for the Info dr. Great information at Wikipedia..

When did it change? : UTC replaced GMT as the basis for the main reference time scale or civil time in various regions on January 1, 1972. I was working as a RADAR Systems Technician on contract to the USAF in the mid 1970's and UTC wasn't fully implemented, it wasn't until the late '70's that the use of it really took hold.

Why did it change? : Snagged from Wikipedia</font color></b> The International Telecommunication Union wanted Coordinated Universal Time to have a single abbreviation for all languages. English speakers and French speakers each wanted the initials of their respective language's terms to be used internationally: "CUT" for "coordinated universal time" and "TUC" for "temps universel coordonné". This resulted in the final compromise of using "UTC".

"UTC" also has the benefit that it fits in with the pattern for the abbreviations of variants of Universal Time. UT0, UT1, UT1R, and others exist, so appending "C" for "coordinated" to the base "UT" is very satisfactory for those who are familiar with the other types of UT.