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?
Ayame Isaki1 votesThe 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.
AHarmlessTaco1 votesMan that is all a little above my head... My idea was not that I really want the computers to talk to each other and keep track of each other's times, but for Riot to implement a little 24 hour cyclic timer in the top corner of all the clients that says the same thing no matter where you are. I wouldn't want it to reference anything real necessarily other than just one timer. The same way they make the same featured videos appear on everyone's clients, granted it'd have to be a little more global and not interactive.
Ayame Isaki2 votesI gave a bit of background but left off the TL;DR.
TL;DR: the client should display a clock in the UTC time zone that sources its time from Riot servers.
AHarmlessTaco1 votesI did read it! More like TC; DC -too complex; didn't comprehend. But yes if that were something easily visible that I could reference it would be nice...