Some chat rooms and MUDs (multi-user dimensions) are using a time reference called "Virtual Reality Time" aka GMT-2. do you think it is a useless idea or not?

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Eh?

I don't see why some chat rooms are using this.
Some people ardently support it, but most of the opposers to it support GMT and don't see what's wrong with it in the first place.
I don't see what's wrong with the real world.
Do you?

booker:I'll keep that in mind

Dolemite:Uh?

I don't understand why GMT is not sufficient.

Time is a constant.

clocks don't measure time, they just measure other clocks. Fiore: time is not a constant. but, for the purposes of this, UT-1 or astronomical time should be sufficient. (I *think* UT-1 is isochronous with GMT, not sure)

I care very much about time, but I think MUDs are a useless idea.

I'm missing how this is an improvement over GMT.

If it's GMT-2 why not call it GMT-2? (I hate the word "VIRTUAL").

It's not a bad idea, but it still involves numbers, so I'm still confused.

Using one time zone can be a good thing, but why GMT-2? Just to make it equally inconvenient for everyone?

sometimes the world just baffles me

Stupid idea. UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, based off of GMT) already exists. Why go out of your way to create a new standard (and some new confusion) when there's nothing wrong with the old one?

What's wrong with GMT anyway? It lines up well with peak usage hours (0000-1200 GMT) on the (international) MUDs I frequent, and it causes the least confusion about what day it is since it's no further than 12 hours off from anyone on the planet.

it seems pretty useless to do this. you can simply do the math if you know what time zone you are in vs what time zone the chat or mud is in.