Wikipedia talk:Wikiday

Cool idea

Nice idea, I just adore the colors. One thing though: Europe in GMT? There are about four European countries using GMT, and about thirty European countries using Central European Time. And that's not counting the African countries.

I realise there are loads of Brits editing on Wiki, but likewise there are quite a lot of other North Europeans on the net. It seems to me that basing it on the number of potential editors has less of a "WP:BIAS".

Besides, CET covers a larger area. Using timezones for this purpose is especially useful to cover larger areas under one zone. For example, CET is only one off with GMT, so is serves to show daylight in both areas. But GMT is already two off with Eastern European Time, and is less useful already. The GMT zone has only two "neighbours", CET (useful) and the Atlantic (not useful unless we count ancient civilisations). CET is simply more... well... central.

Well...this is the english wikipedia. However if we are going to base it off of potential editors, by all means, use CET. GMT has served as a "zero time" for decades though. --Crucible Guardian 23:26, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Or we could just put it on Amsterdam Time, that would suit me just fine. :-)

Cheers, The Minist e r of War ^(Peace) 14:59, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

24 hour time?

IMHO this would be much simpler if it used 24 hour time! I took a while to work out that the 12pm, 4 and 8 in the first column are, indeed 8 hours apart. If they were 12, 4 and 20, it would be much more obvious. Stevage 03:39, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Questions

Hello, I stumbled onto this page by accident, and have some questions.

The text mentions three colors, but the last row shows four colors
How does this scheme help ease "real-time meeting and co-ordination" (whatever that means)
Why is the time in some slots shown as half-past the hour
Why are there only 23 hours in the day
per Stevage, this would be much easier to understand if displayed using a 24 hour clock
If blue means daylight, what do green and orange mean?
Who decided that "Asia" and "Europe" are the "main local areas?"
I"ll bet that there is a greater need for meeting coordination between Western Europe (CET) and Eastern North America (EST), or between California (PST) and Japan (JST) than between "Asia" (CST) and the United Kingdom (GMT).
I think CHT should be CST. I would fix the text, but cannot fix the figure.

Regards—G716 <^T·_C> 16:24, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]