For Sale DrivingRange.org - Great Golf Name. $1 Auction, NR

[Bob]

DrivingRange.org

Great golf term.

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Auction Expires Midnight 10/6-10/7 FORUM TIME.

PM or post any questions.

-Bob

 

[Mr Webname]

$5

 

[unclewilco]

10

 

[tigga]

15

 

[adoninet]

seeing the time on the forum

 

[adoninet]

16.00

 

[adoninet]

pm paypal info

thanks

 

[Bob]

30 minutes left. . .

 

[adoninet]

what does this mean?

Auction Expires Midnight 10/6-10/7 FORUM TIME

wasn't auction over hours ago?

 

[Bob]

Originally posted by adoninet
what does this mean?

Auction Expires Midnight 10/6-10/7 FORUM TIME

wasn't auction over hours ago?

Some people will invariably confuse midnight 10/6 and midnight 10/7. Technically at midnight, it is 10/7, but people get it confused anyway... So, I put both days on either side of midnight in a effort to try to keep people from getting confused. Looks like I did not succeed at that task.

Forum time is in Eastern time. Look at the time of the posts, and look at the forum time at the bottom of any thread...

"All times are GMT -5 hours. The time now is 11:42 PM."

-Bob

 

[adoninet]

then how come my time shows this

10-07-2003 12:01 AM

pm paypal info

thanks


your most recent post shows this

10-07-2003 04:39 AM

quote:Originally posted by adoninet
what does this mean?

Auction Expires Midnight 10/6-10/7 FORUM TIME

wasn't auction over hours ago?



Some people will invsariably confuse midnight 10/6 and midnight 10/7. Technically at midnight, it is 10/7, but people get it confused anyway... So, I put both days on either side of midnight in a effort to try to keep people from getting confused. Looks like I did not succeed at that task.

Forum time is in Easter time. Look at the time of the posts, and look at the forum time at the bottom of any thread...

-Bob

so according to my screen it's 4:30 am

if you mean EST then just say that

that's the easiest

it appears the forum time is not a constant since my forum time is five hours ahead of EST

must be my profile is set to UTC

is that the problem?

anyway, I gues the easiest thing to do is say a time in either EST or PST

since the forum time thing depends entirely on what time the user has set

 

[Bob]

Originally posted by adoninet
then how come my time shows this

10-07-2003 12:01 AM

10-07-2003 04:39 AM

so according to my screen it's 4:30 am

if you mean EST then just say that

must be my profile is set to UTC

is that the problem?

Interesting. Yes, it must mean that your profile is set to GMT / UTC.

Sorry for the confusion, but you do raise a valid point of which I was not aware.

-Bob

 

[adoninet]

i just set my options to est

for some reason my profile had the time 5 hours ahead of est

maybe that's the default setting

so I guess if you just say forum time (EST) that might keep others from getting confused

I assumed the forum time was what I saw on the screen

sorry for the confusion

personally I'm used to UTC since I deal with people all over the world

EST works okay within the USA

but I'm always doing stuff with people in Australia, or the UK or where ever now a days

anyway, I'm sure there's many others like me that are viewing the time from the default time which seems to be 5 hours a head of EST

 

[adoninet]

is it 12:01 yet

hehe

 

[adoninet]

glad to see my computer is now in synch with the board

 

[Bob]

Originally posted by adoninet

but I'm always doing stuff with people in Australia, or the UK or where ever now a days

You don't have to try to impress me... We all work globally. :-D

BTW - it is now aftermidnight... You win. PM coming.

-Bob

 

[adoninet]

i wasn't trying to impress you, it's just I had this same discussion today with someone else about how less and less of our business is in the USA

years ago the net was a big USA phenom

now it seems like most of the action is outside the USA

honest, I had the same discussion today with one of my clients, one of the rare ones I see face to face

he's a vietnamese boat person

he was asking me about what percentage of my biz is from our town

I laughed

I said I don't try to get locals, I don't even do much with USA folks now

the net is a global market

anyway, yesterday I had about 4 emails with a fellow down under, we were trying to synch our watches so we could connect on the phone

it's like 14 hours ahead of EST

so when they get up, we're going to bed

anyway, it just seems weird that the past three days I've had way too many conversations about time

first the aussie fellow, then my vietnamese client then this thing

I guess it goes in threes huh

 

[Bob]

Name pushed. Thanks for the quick payment.

-Bob

 

[tigga]

I think the best thing is to post e.g. "Sale closes exactly 3 days from the time of this post" - that way nobody gets confused.