Re: [freeciv-dev] metaserver timestamps

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 03:25:38AM -0500, Bobby D. Bryant was heard to say:
> Wouldn't it be desirable to convert the metaserver to give all the
> timestamps in universal time?  Right now it shows last turns of
> everywhere between 00:02 and 10:26.  That's no problem if I recognize
> the country extension on the domain name and have some clue about what
> time zone that country is in.  But if you don't know that information
> there isn't any easy way of interpreting the time (though I don't
> suppose a geography lesson would hurt anyone).  Also, domains ending in
> .net and the like don't seem to provide any useful information at all.
> 
> Bobby Bryant
> Austin, Texas

  Even better would be for the client to calculate local time
from the information the metaserver has (which is trivial, or should be, once
the upstream time is in GMT :-)--at least, unless I'm mistaken, there's a libc
routine to do GMT -> local time conversions)

  Daniel

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