check your match times

#1

breloom

15 Frags – +

since esea uses an absolute time reference to schedule matches, your matches have probably all been "moved up" an hour due to DST ending.

#2

shrt

2 Frags – +

Yep it happened, thanks!

#3

Apolloftw

1 Frags – +

Just uncheck the DST/ Summer Time Box in your profile settings.

#4

grillz

1 Frags – +

i don't think the actual match times change

your 'esea clock' is an hour ahead... just adjust like apollo said

edit: sorry, im wrong. they have changed

i don't think the actual match times change

your 'esea clock' is an hour ahead... just adjust like apollo said

edit: sorry, im wrong. they have changed

#5

breloom

2 Frags – +

grillzi don't think the actual match times change

your 'esea clock' is an hour ahead... just adjust like apollo said

nope. the matches are scheduled in reference to utc which doesn't change with dst

[quote=grillz]i don't think the actual match times change

your 'esea clock' is an hour ahead... just adjust like apollo said[/quote]
nope. the matches are scheduled in reference to utc which doesn't change with dst

#6

london_calling

4 Frags – +

thats wacky, good catch breloom.

#7

freakin

0 Frags – +

yeah i believe breloom is correct, I'm pretty sure our match is off an hour from what is was before

#8

shrt

1 Frags – +

In case you already scheduled your match, and the time that you see now is +1 hour from what you scheduled, you can do a reschedule, or open a ticket to have the time changed back.

[quote]In case you already scheduled your match, and the time that you see now is +1 hour from what you scheduled, you can do a reschedule, or open a ticket to have the time changed back.
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#9

DanceNumber

0 Frags – +

This might sound dumb, but could someone explain the point of DST. I've lived without it my whole life and I honestly find it to be really inconvenient and nonsensical.

#10

Dagger

cp_granary_pro

4 Frags – +

WithADanceNumberThis might sound dumb, but could someone explain the point of DST. I've lived without it my whole life and I honestly find it to be really inconvenient and nonsensical.

So you have more daylight during the evenings and less during the mornings.

[quote=WithADanceNumber]This might sound dumb, but could someone explain the point of DST. I've lived without it my whole life and I honestly find it to be really inconvenient and nonsensical.[/quote]

So you have more daylight during the evenings and less during the mornings.

#11

Marxist

0 Frags – +

It was more important in the past for saving gas/electricity when people didn't use electricity all the time.

It's also helpful for larger countries that cover multiple time zones so that noon doesn't equal dinner time for some people out west and so forth.

It was more important in the past for saving gas/electricity when people didn't use electricity all the time.

It's also helpful for larger countries that cover multiple time zones so that noon doesn't equal dinner time for some people out west and so forth.

#12

HereThereBeTygers

16 Frags – +

http://www.geekologie.com/2012/03/21/daylight-savings-drought.jpg

[img]http://www.geekologie.com/2012/03/21/daylight-savings-drought.jpg[/img]

#13

Dagger

cp_granary_pro

21 Frags – +

why don't we just shoot water at the sun to cool it off

#14

kuza

11 Frags – +

Maybe we can get sunglasses for the earth and save the planet.

#15

defy

1 Frags – +

kuzaMaybe we can get sunglasses for the earth and save the planet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAhVdN1giiU

[quote=kuza]Maybe we can get sunglasses for the earth and save the planet.[/quote]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAhVdN1giiU[/youtube]

#16

1Platypus

2 Frags – +

I've always thought that everyone using 24 hour GMT would work the best. Time correlates to things happening (sunrise, etc.) in our current system, but it's still just an aribitrary value.

#17

pine_beetle

0 Frags – +

WithADanceNumberThis might sound dumb, but could someone explain the point of DST. I've lived without it my whole life and I honestly find it to be really inconvenient and nonsensical.

Another reason is the further north/south you go the more the amount of daylight changes throughout the seasons. You go from 3-4 hours of daylight during winter months to 21 hours during the summertime.

[quote=WithADanceNumber]This might sound dumb, but could someone explain the point of DST. I've lived without it my whole life and I honestly find it to be really inconvenient and nonsensical.[/quote]

Another reason is the further north/south you go the more the amount of daylight changes throughout the seasons. You go from 3-4 hours of daylight during winter months to 21 hours during the summertime.

#18

Tery_

1 Frags – +

WithADanceNumberThis might sound dumb, but could someone explain the point of DST. I've lived without it my whole life and I honestly find it to be really inconvenient and nonsensical.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84aWtseb2-4

[quote=WithADanceNumber]This might sound dumb, but could someone explain the point of DST. I've lived without it my whole life and I honestly find it to be really inconvenient and nonsensical.[/quote]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84aWtseb2-4[/youtube]

#19

LiterallyAPanda

0 Frags – +

SO any word on how we deal with this? Some of my team won't be online until near the actual match time.

#20

sherman_gluck

0 Frags – +

LiterallyAPandaSO any word on how we deal with this? Some of my team won't be online until near the actual match time.

leave a support ticket and hope they get it to it before match time, its what i did. no response for 6 hours

[quote=LiterallyAPanda]SO any word on how we deal with this? Some of my team won't be online until near the actual match time.[/quote]
leave a support ticket and hope they get it to it before match time, its what i did. no response for 6 hours

#21

drduke

0 Frags – +

I was able to reschedule through an offer, try that

#22

d_b

5 Frags – +

esea is so comically inept

#23

sleepwalker

0 Frags – +

ESEA may have a bug so double check you match times etc, but storing the match times in UTC is fine. UTC won't change with daylight savings, it's our offset to UTC that changes with daylight savings time.

In the summer, the eastern time zone is EDT which has an offset of -4 from UTC. In the winter, the eastern time zone is EST which has an offset of -5 from UTC.

Now, ESEA may have screwed something up, but using UTC is fine. And I agree DST is stupid.

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I was thinking about this more, and it would cause the match time to move. It is a bit of a hard problem, since not everyone observes daylight savings - and their times wouldn't move. Although most of the US does.... anyways :)

ESEA may have a bug so double check you match times etc, but storing the match times in UTC is fine. UTC won't change with daylight savings, it's our offset to UTC that changes with daylight savings time.

In the summer, the eastern time zone is [url=http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/na/edt.html]EDT[/url] which has an offset of -4 from UTC. In the winter, the eastern time zone is [url=http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/na/est.html]EST[/url] which has an offset of -5 from UTC.

Now, ESEA may have screwed something up, but using UTC is fine. And I agree DST is stupid.

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I was thinking about this more, and it would cause the match time to move. It is a bit of a hard problem, since not everyone observes daylight savings - and their times wouldn't move. Although most of the US does.... anyways :)

#24

breloom

-1 Frags – +

sleepwalkerESEA may have a bug so double check you match times etc, but storing the match times in UTC is fine. UTC won't change with daylight savings, it's our offset to UTC that changes with daylight savings time.

In the summer, the eastern time zone is EDT which has an offset of -4 from UTC. In the winter, the eastern time zone is EST which has an offset of -5 from UTC.

Now, ESEA may have screwed something up, but using UTC is fine. And I agree DST is stupid.

the utc time doens't change

[quote=sleepwalker]ESEA may have a bug so double check you match times etc, but storing the match times in UTC is fine. UTC won't change with daylight savings, it's our offset to UTC that changes with daylight savings time.

In the summer, the eastern time zone is [url=http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/na/edt.html]EDT[/url] which has an offset of -4 from UTC. In the winter, the eastern time zone is [url=http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/na/est.html]EST[/url] which has an offset of -5 from UTC.

Now, ESEA may have screwed something up, but using UTC is fine. And I agree DST is stupid.[/quote]
the utc time doens't change

#25

sleepwalker

0 Frags – +

breloomsleepwalkerESEA may have a bug so double check you match times etc, but storing the match times in UTC is fine. UTC won't change with daylight savings, it's our offset to UTC that changes with daylight savings time.

In the summer, the eastern time zone is EDT which has an offset of -4 from UTC. In the winter, the eastern time zone is EST which has an offset of -5 from UTC.

Now, ESEA may have screwed something up, but using UTC is fine. And I agree DST is stupid.the utc time doens't change

I agree, it doesn't change. It's our offset that changes, which is what I was saying. The offset is the number of hours to subtract from UTC to get your local time.

It does cause the match time to move, which does seem like a nasty bug. I guess the web site needs to have your timezone when you schedule the match, look at the date of the match and use the right offset. This weeks scheduling should have been made with the -5 offset, but it sounds like it was using the -4. It is a little bit of a tricky problem.

[quote=breloom][quote=sleepwalker]ESEA may have a bug so double check you match times etc, but storing the match times in UTC is fine. UTC won't change with daylight savings, it's our offset to UTC that changes with daylight savings time.

In the summer, the eastern time zone is [url=http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/na/edt.html]EDT[/url] which has an offset of -4 from UTC. In the winter, the eastern time zone is [url=http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/na/est.html]EST[/url] which has an offset of -5 from UTC.

Now, ESEA may have screwed something up, but using UTC is fine. And I agree DST is stupid.[/quote]
the utc time doens't change[/quote]

I agree, it doesn't change. It's our offset that changes, which is what I was saying. The offset is the number of hours to subtract from UTC to get your local time.

It does cause the match time to move, which does seem like a nasty bug. I guess the web site needs to have your timezone when you schedule the match, look at the date of the match and use the right offset. This weeks scheduling should have been made with the -5 offset, but it sounds like it was using the -4. It is a little bit of a tricky problem.

#26

Fzero

2 Frags – +

TBH, I always thought that clicking DST on ESEA meant it would automatically do DST. Not, click here if its DST.