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Some small site updates tonight

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Just to let you know about a minor update I did tonight: You can now pick your timezone in the User Control Panel.

It currently only affects the livestream calendar. So now it will list the time in your locally set time, then the UTC time in brackets, in addition to the countdown timer.

When submitting a livestream (you can do that, submit yours any time!) it will auto-convert the time you pick into UTC for our database. Less hassle for anyone submitting to have to find whatever time they would be streaming in UTC.

Will roll-out the localization to anywhere else appropriate as time goes on. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Psycic101 Mar 26, 2017
Great feature. Any chance you can alphabetise the list grouped by time zone so it's easier to find the correct city?
Liam Dawe Mar 26, 2017
Quoting: Psycic101Great feature. Any chance you can alphabetise the list grouped by time zone so it's easier to find the correct city?
Done. It was sorted by the UTC offset, but I agree sorting by name is better for normal people to find where they are :)
robotman5 Mar 26, 2017
good stuff. though it still shows UTC for me :/
Liam Dawe Mar 26, 2017
Quoting: robotman5good stuff. though it still shows UTC for me :/
What does?
tmtvl Mar 26, 2017
Quoting: Psycic101Great feature. Any chance you can alphabetise the list grouped by time zone so it's easier to find the correct city?

Dagnabbit, I was about to suggest it get sorted by UTC difference, like most websites do. Keep it like it is, I guess, but place the UTC value after the location name?
Liam Dawe Mar 26, 2017
Quoting: tmtvl
Quoting: Psycic101Great feature. Any chance you can alphabetise the list grouped by time zone so it's easier to find the correct city?

Dagnabbit, I was about to suggest it get sorted by UTC difference, like most websites do. Keep it like it is, I guess, but place the UTC value after the location name?
Good idea, done. So you can now type a letter to get somewhere in the list :)
Psycic101 Mar 26, 2017
Quoting: tmtvl
Quoting: Psycic101Great feature. Any chance you can alphabetise the list grouped by time zone so it's easier to find the correct city?

Dagnabbit, I was about to suggest it get sorted by UTC difference, like most websites do. Keep it like it is, I guess, but place the UTC value after the location name?

I was thinking having all the timezones grouped, but then alphabetise within each group, so all +2 zones appear after the +1 zones but within the +2 zones Africa appears before Europe and within the Africa group, Harare appears before Johannesburg. Hope that makes sense.
robotman5 Mar 26, 2017
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: robotman5good stuff. though it still shows UTC for me :/
What does?

On posts and and my profile it says UTC.
scaine Mar 27, 2017
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Quoting: robotman5
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: robotman5good stuff. though it still shows UTC for me :/
What does?

On posts and and my profile it says UTC.

You must have missed this line in the article:
QuoteIt currently only affects the livestream calendar
robotman5 Mar 27, 2017
Quoting: scaine
Quoting: robotman5
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: robotman5good stuff. though it still shows UTC for me :/
What does?

On posts and and my profile it says UTC.

You must have missed this line in the article:
QuoteIt currently only affects the livestream calendar


Opps!

my bad! :S:
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