Simple Local Time Note

Simply edit your Name (Personal not Player) in Home page by adding your Local Universal Time as per example--

Donald Fraser (GMT+1)

Background--Chess.com advises difficult to programme  INFO. beside Flag as my original suggestion .(And of course other things more pressing)

We can easily  do this ourselves to add to awareness of playing conditions  and help in exchange of normal courtesies.

Anyone interested can do this right now !

SECOND THOUGHTS----NOT ALL SHOW PERSONAL NAMES so INFO. COULD BE BETTER SHOWN SIMILARLY in LOCATION BOX--- WHATEVER ,WE CAN DO IT

1. Engineer the disaster.
2. Have the solution ready.
3. Save the day!
   

I admire your style.

Bear in mind that the old timezone names:

• Greenwich Mean Time[GMT]
  
• Central European Time[CET]
  
• Eastern European Time[EET]
  

- including the lesser-used American variants:

• Eastern Standard Time[EST]
  
• Central Standard Time[CST]
  
• Pacific Standard Time[PST]
  

- have been largely superceded by offsets from Co-ordinated Universal Time [UTC]. Thus, GMT = UTC apart from when DST {Daylight Saving Time} applies.

- with the normal proviso regarding DST.

Chess.com may introduce it's own Universal Chess.com Time [UCT] - at which point, UTC will probably be phased out.

To update this thread - a Solution has been Found - all you have to do is  rewrite your Location information and at same time add your area 's GMT adjustment value- Please look at my Profile and follow example- do it now and save Eric a lot of time. Show your friends and set the snowball rolling !!! You may enter either  G M T or U T C - both terms represent the same Time.

So they could be described as "Simultimeous"

When I became a member, I think I chose a GMT entry in my profile/location page.  This information is hidden, but I guess the site could use that.  I guess I don't have to put it beside my name.  Thanks for messaging me...

Charlie91 wrote: When I became a member, I think I chose a GMT entry in my profile/location page.  This information is hidden, but I guess the site could use that.  I guess I don't have to put it beside my name.  Thanks for messaging me...

You're quite right, Charlie91. On chess.com, no-one can force you to do anything you don't want to. They may plead, cajole, threaten or even merely suggest but, whatever it is: resigning, chatting, not using opening databases, setting a visible time indicator, ... - it is YOUR choice.

For chess.com members affiliated to a particular country state, their displayed flag gives a reasonable indicator of their likely timezone. Supranational players, on the other hand, giving no timezone indication by default, and are International Men (and Women) of Mystery!

The somewhat greater mystery, to most people, is why anyone would be interested in knowing anyone else's timezone.

Here's a few websites containing timezone & international time tools ...

• http://www.worldtimezone.com/index.php - global map (some countries named)
  
• http://www.weltzeit.de/zeitzonenkarte.php - global map (some countries named)
  
• http://www.worldtimezone.com/datetime.htm - sun clock (i.e. shows day and night)
• http://www.worldtimeserver.com/ - search by country / major city / American state
  

Google homepage has is an applet which can simultaneously display times of different places in any format you want - just open another window of your browser.

Thanks for that information,Debasis ;everything helps to illuminate ideas.

However people seem to be missing the point that the profile needs to be done only once; and would remove need for  locating of remote places.

Why indeed???

This other discussion (http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/whats-the-time-mr-wolf) attempts to illuminate that particular Dark Matter.