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Genuinely curious, My possibly biased perception is that people in Europe are more "internationally aware" (for lack of a better word) than those in the US. e.
by sixhobbits 6y ago
Genuinely curious,
My possibly biased perception is that people in Europe are more "internationally aware" (for lack of a better word) than those in the US. e.g. a website that is built in Europe but likely to attract international interest will include a timezone.
The schedule[0] for this just has dates and times. I have no idea when anything is, though some of it looks interesting.
Is there a "default" timezone that Americans assume on an American-centric site that doesn't actually state timezones? California?
[0] https://cloudflare.tv/schedule https://cloudflare.tv/schedule
- kidsil 6y agoIn my experience it's usually EST timezone (Eastern Time Zone). Currently that's UTC-4.
- tcberry 6y agoThat is usually true for a lot of timezone-free times for U.S.-based companies, but the article states that the inaugural broadcast is 12 PM Pacific time (PDT), which is UTC-7. The schedule lists this broadcast as occurring at 12 PM, which aligns with it being set to Pacific time. Makes sense, as Cloudflare is based in San Francisco.
- kozziollek 6y agoI think it's just local ;) I'm in CEST (UTC+2), so it's 12:22 pm right now, and schedule page shows that orange line in 12:00 PM box. But I agree - it should mention timezone or if it's local time. I saw "AM/PM" and also assumed it was some "stupid" American time.
- kiliankoe 6y agoMy (grossly over-simplified) experience has been that European services tend to focus a lot more on localization than US-based ones, with the latter focusing a lot more on time zone issues, since that is a topic very relevant to the US. Not so much in Europe, where most countries share the same time zone with their neighbors and are only situated in a single one themselves.
- Aeolun 6y agoBased on the fact that it gets my current time right (in Asia), I have to assume it adjusts to whatever location you are connecting from.
- metafunctor 6y agoThe site shows the schedule in local time, or specifically, whatever the browser thinks is local time. There's an orange horizontal line for "now".
- iso1631 6y agoWhile Europe is more internationally aware, I think the U.S. is more timezone aware. Most people in the UK think of times as being "GMT" (even in summer when it's GMT+1). In Europe almost everywhere is CET (UK+1, so GMT+1 in winter, GMT+2 in summer). Timezones only really kick in intercontinentally In the US every TV show says something like "join us at 9/8c" - timezones are far more in your day-to-day life - certainly in the past when TV was popular.
- eastdakota 6y agoTimes are all adjusted to be local to you. And we’re trying to create content in languages that are local to the time zones around the world.