Not sure if anyone has ever discussed this but I feel like it would be nice to have an 'in-client' game timer, like a clock that has the same time across all regions and servers. Itd be nice to be able to leave notes saying "Back at -----" and have it make sense to anyone that sees it, or in a chat be like "hey Ill be on at ----" without having to discuss the part where we have different time zones.
Has anyone ever discussed this or think it would be nice?
The time zone you are looking for is called UTC. This is typically the time zone set on enterprise systems, especially those with a global footprint. At the very least, systems talking to each other are using UTC or differences from the POSIX epoch (this is how time is tracked on *NIX operating systems such as Linux and OSX and is basis for time in the Java language as well) . Unless you are using a .NET language on Windows. Then good luck getting cross time zone things to work as you expect.
Fun fact: I mention Java above. Java was created by Sun Microsystems, the creators of Solaris (a flavor of UNIX). Thus it makes sense they would use the UNIX method of time tracking.
