08:56 by FoxTwo Given that I play MMORPGs, and that a majority of players of these MMOs are not in Singapore, arranging raid times can be a daunting task, ESPECIALLY for people who live in countries where they have those dang Daylight Savings thing going into effect.
The guys at Swatch invented Internet Time some time back (a few years back actually) but it amazes me at how un-popular it is! Now granted that a majority of my interaction have been only with Americans but the impression I got from them was that "the [name of event] will start at 2pm EST. You figure that out in your time zone".
Despite some efforts on my part, many of them just don't bother. In fact, it is disheartening to know that many of them don't even know what time GMT is. Only those who have been in the armed forces know it, and they call it Zulu time.
Internet time is a great concept - one single time, for everybody in the world. If it's @800 here in Singapore, it's @800 there in USA, or Belgium, or Belgrade, or Yugoslavia, or wherever. The time is the SAME.
I even went ahead and made a widget for Konfabulator for Internet Time. At the time of this writing, my widget had been downloaded about 630 times, which isn't too bad considering how apathetic people are towards the Internet Time concept, as well as it being my first widget to be published for Konfabulator.
Now, if only more people would just be aware of Internet Time and how great it is especially for people who interacts with other people from different countries in many different time zones.
