Newcomer / Intro GMT

[who?]

GMT and UTC are not the same, UTC is not a timezone and thus has no daylight savings.

Admittedly, it's handy for us in the GMT timezone that it matches up - for some of the year. Pity those Venusian Elite players.. they have a 5,832 hour day but they're stuck on a 24 hour clock.

 

[OrionUK]

And people from around the world will always have to add or subtract time, if they aren't in the exact same time zone.
This is normal behaviour from a lot of online games, either the game is "server time" or some universal time.

People not in that specific time zone will have to adjust accordingly.

The ships clock is not off, it's accurate to in-game time.

Well I figure that USA players will have EST, CST and PST (eastern/central and pacific) so I cannot see why FD cannot use local GMT and adjust for daylight saving. Unless of course the federal bureaucrats revoked it sometime between 2016 and 3301! Probably take that length of time to pass the House of Lords/Congress/Representatives

 

[Derpster Frey]

Well I figure that USA players will have EST, CST and PST (eastern/central and pacific) so I cannot see why FD cannot use local GMT and adjust for daylight saving. Unless of course the federal bureaucrats revoked it sometime between 2016 and 3301! Probably take that length of time to pass the House of Lords/Congress/Representatives

Because the galaxy doesn't have daylight savings.
It uses a time standard, which is in this case is UTC.

 

[Sapient6]

GMT and UTC are not the same, UTC is not a timezone and thus has no daylight savings.

Neither does GMT. Like all other time zones it stays static during daylight savings time and areas that observe daylight savings time switch to an alternate time zone as their legal time. In the UK that's BST (British Summer Time).