Resetting Website Clock to Your Timezone

Real talk:

ODO is glorious, and all who wish to raid with ODO are glorious. We are also spread out across about 45 different timezones (approx) which can make scheduling a bit tricky at times.

To that end, here are the steps to change your clock on the site so that the raid calendars might be more usable and you do not think, as I did starting out, that the US Raid takes place at 2:30 am. 🙄

1. Log in to the website
2. Upper left corner, click on your username. This will give you a little menu.
3. From that menu, click "Settings" You should now be on a page called "Account Settings"
4. Click on the tab "Display Options"
5. The second option down, "Timezone" has a dropdown menu with manymany timezones. Pick yours!

If you are not sure your timezone, here is an interactive map:

www.timeanddate.com/time/map/

BONUS: If you dont want to bother with logging in, here is a timezone converter that will let you change the times posted on the site to your own timezone:

www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

All times posted on the site (unless stated otherwise) are GMT, or Greenwich mean time, which refers to Greenwich, in England, where many of our glorious number live. They are also on the 24 hour clock, which Americans who have not been in the military can suss out by subtracting 12 from all times greater than 12 to get the number of hours PM things are referring to.

SUPERBONUS: If you are extraordinarily bored and not in-game to deal with that by running MFA/Polaris/Issue 7/teasing FrontandCenter, here is the wikipedia on GMT: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time (My favorite detail in there is how Britain apparently did not do Daylight savings between 1968-1971?...Had I been alive at that pt, I guess I might have wanted to sleep in a fair bit during those years too...)

🙂

Anyway, hope this helps.

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Thanks!

And I realise this is over 1.5 years after your original post, but the UK experiment you refer to was, in fact, not to abolish DST but to add to it (hence it's called Double Summer Time which turns into the same abbreviation: DST 🙂 ). So then in winter they would be on UT+1 instead of UTC and in summer on UTC+2. The proponents argued that by adding 1 hour to UK time and effectively following the time of European mainland, they could save energy as the evenings would be lighter. So during the experiment they decided to test that by not resetting the clock and staying on DST during the winter. The downside is obvious: lighter evenings means darker mornings, so especially in the North this proposal is/was not popular. Especially in Scotland and N Ireland, where it means it will only start to get light around 10 am. This is pretty much how it is in the Netherlands, where I live. Geographically speaking the Netherlands should be on UTC, but for practical reasons we adhere to European Central Time which is kept by the majority of our trading partners. But the debate hasn't died down yet, I believe. Especially since most people live their private lives in the evening and not in the morning, so an hour of light gained in the evening seems beneficial. An interesting debate, all in all! 😀

I love that you know this. I love that you posted this.

And I'm glad the practical part might have been helpful!