MST?
 

Hi!

I am just considering why the posts on FT are stamped with MST. It makes it's very unhandy for everybody from outside the US.

I appreciate that this started as a US forum but it has evolved since then.

Surely it would be more fair for everyone if FT used:
GMT (UTC)

Everybody knows what their local time is compared to GMT - people outside the US hardly have knowledge of their local time compared to MST.

Just a suggestion.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

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Goldlust

It's not really even accurate, as currently they are really not MST, but rather MDT. I would suggest that the label be as follows:

All times are: US/Canada Mountain (GMT-6 Apr-Oct; GMT-7 Nov-Mar)

Changing the timestamp to GMT would in fact substantively inconvenience USA users, as it puts the reset of "Today's Active Topics" at 8pm EDT, a very likely time to be in the middle of a session.

Okay, I guess I must accept that US users are still the majority here http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

In a perfect world the forum would adjust to the individual user so always would show local time (or whatever time zone that user might prefer).

I just assumed that the Flyertalk computer server was located in Colorado; thus the reasoning for the time zone.

I could be wrong... that has certainly happenned before... and in many different time zones!

William

I just accept that the posted time is FlyerTalk Time.

I like chexfan's idea http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Thanks for the suggestions, though... we'll keep them in mind.