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CET in Date

After the date of the tourney, I see CET. This suggests Central European Time to me. But then it should be in the time, not the date.

Bert_Camper, 20.02.2015, 09:57
Idea status: completed

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1TOPSailor, 20.02.2015, 20:04
I see what you are saying. If the date is today through a week later, it shows up in the format:

Starts: Today at 9:00 PM EST
Starts: Tuesday at 9:00 PM EST
etc.

More than 7 days from now, the date/time displays as Starts: 02/27/2015 EST

The routine that formats the date as something in MM/DD/YYYY format (not sure if there are localization rules that might render it differently like DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD) isn't appending the time before appending the time zone, but the routine that either displays "Today" or some weekday is fetching the time in building the string.

I really like the localization on time zone. It must get that from your browser settings or something. I didn't notice at first because the old system had you enter the time in EST (even though SCE is based in the PST time zone). Our tourney owner told me that he saw everything listed in PST time which is how I came to know. That will be nicer for our global users who always wonder when tourneys are because they don't know what 9PM EST is in their local time zone.
Bert_Camper, 20.02.2015, 20:25
I only set 2 tournies to try things out. They were set for 2016 and have CET. It's confusing when the time zone is behind the date.
I am in the Netherlands and we have American and European members. I can live with times in either time zone, but I need to know which zone it's actually in.
1TOPSailor, 21.02.2015, 00:36
It seems to be a bug in the date/time display function if the scheduled date is 7 days or more in the future.

Itt should show like this (example since I don't know the date/time you entered):
Starts: 03/14/2016 at 11:00 PM CET

When your American players sign on, they will see the time relative to their local settings, which would be something like:

Starts: 03/14/2016 at 5:00 PM EST or
Starts: 03/14/2016 at 2:00 PM PST

Just for now it shows:
Starts: 03/14/2016 CET

Even if they don't fix it, when it is within a week of the tourney, the time will show up, but I believe Gromph will fix this.
Gromph, 24.02.2015, 20:55
This is fixed

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