Guild Wars 2

What made you guys decide that CET would be the best alternate timezone for your announcements? What’s wrong with UTC/GMT? CET is useful for Europeans (Although I lived in the UK for 10 years and never heard it used, ever). UTC is global. Everyone in the world knows UTC.

It’s such a small thing, a harmless courtesy to players who live outside your primary audiences but who pay just as much as every other player.

If the suggestion’s to be ignored, could someone with a red paint-splatter please at least explain the logic behind it?

Would you prefer they give out time in every timezone available?
Whatever the timezone they pick someone would always get left out.
Besides it’s not so hard to google CET or whatever and find out what time it is, it took me less than 30 seconds to find out it’s 23.40 CET by the time I’m typing this…

Munrock’s got a point. Even though I’m CET (and as such, I have no reason to complain), it should be a matter of good sense to use UTC in global announcements. Pretty much everyone know their timezone is UTC+/-X, but not everyone knows all the other timezones as well.

For example, if someone tells me “9 PM EST”, I really have no idea what they’re talking about. If they tell me 2:00 UTC, I immediately know it’s four in the morning for me.

UTC/GMT is the standard for giving a time to people worldwide.

However, CET has another big disadvantage: It has daylight saving/summer time. Which means that people in other timezones need to know when DST is turned on and off in order to do the conversion in their head. This is especially annoying for southern hemisphere countries.

GMT/UTC does not have daylight saving. So we only need to pay attention to our local DST dates. Thus it becomes the best choice because it is the most well known way to state a specific time and date that does not have daylight saving.