From Time to Time…and Back Again

Every year Second Life Time skips an hour, and jumps back again at a later date. Why do we have to go through this every single year?

Avatars…some of our creators have to deal with shifts in time no fewer than 4 times per year. This is because the use of DST in both their time zones and SLT are not in sync with each other.

Switching to UTC will be quite a jump, but it will make things easier on us avatars, and on our creators. Some of our creators will have only 2 time shifts per year left to deal with, while other creators will have none. Also, we avatars will not have anymore time shifts to make.

I believe that there’s only 1 thing to do:

I call on all avatars to get their creators to vote on and watch Issue ID SVC-1385, to motivate Linden Lab to switch to UTC as soon as possible.

The jump to UTC is big, but it will be our last one, and it will make time keeping in Second Life easier.

May our creators understand the logic of voting for this issue. Only then will they place the vote that will make our and their lives easier.

Lest I forget…I thank the creator of Coyote Pace for creating this issue in the JIRA.