Team chat instructions

[JerWA]

If you're not comfortable with mIRC, and run the Firefox web browser, just install ChatZilla:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...don/chatzilla/

And then click this link:
irc://irc.Freenode.net/team_seti.usa

Done

[Maxwell]

Thanks, JerWA!

I updated the post on the main page and moved it to the top. If you want it edited, let me know...

[Cruncher Pete]

Thanks, JerWA!

I updated the post on the main page and moved it to the top. If you want it edited, let me know...

Maxwell, just a minor thing but could be improved. The article uses CST Time. That is OK if everybody knows CST time in relation to their own time. If you add in brackets the equivalent UTC time that would be helpful.

[John P. Myers]

Maxwell, just a minor thing but could be improved. The article uses CST Time. That is OK if everybody knows CST time in relation to their own time. If you add in brackets the equivalent UTC time that would be helpful.

I agree. Using UTC makes us appear more scientific. Plus then we get to make fun of people that have no clue how to figure out what time that means for them

[Maxwell]

How should I alter it with Daylight savings time then? I will not remember to edit the article twice a year, and the UTC time changes, but the time in the Central time zone does not...

[Fire$torm]

How should I alter it with Daylight savings time then? I will not remember to edit the article twice a year, and the UTC time changes, but the time in the Central time zone does not...

errr, I think you got it mixed up. UTC never changes. That is what makes UTC important and why it is used.

[Maxwell]

errr, I think you got it mixed up. UTC never changes. That is what makes UTC important and why it is used.

No no - I'm right. I just stated it wrong. Here's what I mean:

Chat Start = 19:00 Mondays, Central Time Zone. Year round.
Chat Start = UTC-5 Mondays, During US daylight savings time (summerish), UTC-6 Mondays, in months without daylight savings (winterish)

So, stating the time that chat starts in terms of UTC changes depending on the time of year 00:00 UTC Tuesdays during daylight savings, and 01:00 during non-daylight savings.

Does that make sense? And how do I state that simply?

EDIT: Clearly I'm over complicating this - 01:00 Tuesdays UTC. If people are an hour late, we'll still be there. The majority of people are almost always in there anyway...

EDIT2: Article on front page edited.

[Cruncher Pete]

How should I alter it with Daylight savings time then? I will not remember to edit the article twice a year, and the UTC time changes, but the time in the Central time zone does not...

For the benefit of those who do not know much about Universal Time Coordinated (UTC), let me briefly explain it. This is a world wide recognized neutral time zone from which all other time zones are derived from. The time is kept in a town called Greenwich in the UK hence the alternative title Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Because of Day light saving in Greenwich itself, the local time there will alter from UTC + or - at the time of commencement or cessation of Day Light Saving. The time in UTC DOES NOT change since it is the neutral time zone. For example, Brisbane, Australia is +10 ahead of UTC. (We do not have DST either). If somebody states UTC time, I just take away 10 hours from it to derive at my local time. However, since I have no idea of the time difference from CST, I have to google it every time and first convert it to UTC than convert it again to derive at my local time. (Yes, I know there are programs that will convert it a lot easier but it will still take time to look up).

This is a piece of piss to a trained soldier or a piece of train to a pissed soldier...

[joker]

No throwing spears during the chats though DB. That would not be nice.

[Duke of Buckingham]

No throwing spears during the chats though DB. That would not be nice.

2 forums and one chat with joker?



crazy Duke already.

I couldnt enter the chat yesterday and I tried.