Forum:Official time zone

Hello again, fellow schemers. Today I bring to you the question about time zones. What's yours? Nah, but seriously, need to decide on an official time zone.

Mostly we have used the Eastern Time Zone (also EST) as our "unofficial" time zone but I have seen different times take effect. This doesn't matter with forums really, as long as it's been a week or two or however denoted. But with GAN, it has been sort of an issue in the past. For example, long ago, when New CIS was a GAN (or FAN, don't remember, back when FANs were timed that is), everybody (man up) tried to delay it by saying no it can't become good until midnight on so-and-so day!!! Of course this was only to delay it as much as possible from becoming a "good" article. Meanwhile, its author was saying "OMG IT'S MIDNIGHT UTC (Universal Time) it should be FA NOW!!!!''

Much later, as recent as last year I think, I saw certain users waiting until midnight EST to approve a good article while acting biased and "approving" others at midnight UTC. You know who you are! Either way, I think while not a big issue and most of you will try to be 'hip' and just say "whatever," this can and has been an issue in the past. So, vote below on what our official time zone may be. If you don't know what time zone you're in, then shame on you (seriously)!

If you have a time zone you'd like to see nominated, please feel free to do so as long as it follows the format of the rest of the headers. Voting policy applies, of course. Vote will last until June 4, midnight PST! (no matter the time zone chosen, that will not change; might be June 4, 3:00 AM EST, or perhaps June 4, 8:00 AM UTC, who knows...)

Eastern Standard Time (+1)

 * 1) It's been the "standard" for us for a long time, pretty much, plus is simple to figure out. I personally live in PST, but this wouldn't be a problem. Plus it can prevent users from saying stuff like "It's midnight UTC, vote's done!" just to get a vote through faster. That's the key issue here; to me, PST is a bit "late," like in a presidential election, you know? ;) –Victor  Sienar.svg (talk page ) 06:44, 28 May 2009 (UTC)