SLT
November 12, 2007 by VJ Shojo
SLT or Second Life Time is set to Pacific standard time. While I understand that Linden Labs is California based, The choice to use that particular time zone strikes me as just plain silly.
It defies logic, with the huge international subscriber base that SL has, that time isn’t based on GMT. So we end up with a situation where most of the European residents are going dark at 4PM SLT. Even US east coast residents are yawning by 8 or 9 PM SLT.
Also SLT changes with the American Daylight Savings Time. Again it just makes me shake my head.
The Lindens need to shift the time to GMT. This will make it much easier for international residents to plan events that more people can enjoy and would serve the largest population of residents with time that is closer to their RL time.
Interesting Facts:
US Population by Time Zone
Time zone……….Percent
Eastern…………..47.0
Central…………..32.9
Mountain…………..5.4
Pacific…………..14.1
Alaska and Hawaii…..0.6
source: Google questions.
Europe makes up 11% of the world population.
