Reserved For Future Updates^^^Click Here To Return to the Main Information Post at the Top of the Page^^^The Great "To Do List" and Content Surgery Post For All of This Thread's Active "To Do Lists".Don't panic!This post is has only very temporarily become the home for each post in this thread's individual "To Do List" and their accompanying "Progress Percentages". Again, this is only a temporary place to put them. The 20,000 character limit per post has become a HUGE issue; which unfortunately means these To Do Lists couldn't stay in their respective posts anymore. Once MOST of the bullet points for each post have been removed from their respective To Do Lists, then this post will once again return to being an empty post reserved for the future.
Each concern is assigned it's own bullet point and Progress Percentage. In order to remove a bullet point from a To Do List the bullet point's associated Progress Percentage must increase. Progress Percentage increases for the associated bullet point for work that has been successful in fixing, updating, or solving that bullet point's particular concern. Once a bullet point's Progress Percentage reaches 100%; it is then removed from the To Do List of the post it's associated with.
I'm sorry I jacked a post for something like this. I'm working hard to get these bullet points removed as fast as possible so that this post can return to normal ASAP.
If you'd like to follow the progress along, each individual post's To Do List is separated from the To Do Lists of the other posts by a line of bold large font asterisks(*) both above and below each To Do List. The topmost To Do List is the To Do List for "The Information Post". The middle To Do List is the To Do List of the post for the "The No Excuses Daylight Savings Time Showtime Calculation Guide". The bottom To Do List is the To Do List for "The Thread Updates Post".
Well, I guess it's time to get back on top of solving these concerns so I can erase some of those bullet points!
Hugs!
-Aristile
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Hurray! The "To Do List" for "The Update Post" Has Been Successfully Completed!
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+++++@@@@@#####$$$$$%%%%%&&&&&!!!!!Just 2 More Posts to Go!**************************************************THE FOLLOWING CONTENT HAS BEEN CUT FROM ITS ORIGINAL POST TO BE TRIMMED DOWN OR EDITED HERE AS THE 20k CHARACTER LIMIT IS A PROBLEMThe Content Workbench:Using Fernurion's Local Showtime to Find Your Local Showtime(In DST Observing Areas):
Fernurion's Local Showtime: Sunday at 12:00P.M.(noon) Australia Eastern Standard Time(AEST) UTC offset +10
We recommend using Fernurion's local town (Brisbane) as one of your watched/monitored times in the clock app on your smartphone. That way, by knowing the show starts at 12:00 Noon Fernurion Time in your app, you will be able to count the hours until the show goes LIVE. You can also convert Fernurion Time into your local time, and then make a note of when the show starts in your local timezone for the current time of year where you live. You can then simply spring forward or fall back an hour alongside YOUR OWN timezone. This will cause the show to start an hour later for you when Daylight Savings Time ACTIVATES in your local time zone and you are coming OUT of Standard Time. Conversely, the show will start an hour earlier when Standard Time ACTIVATES for your local time zone as you are coming OUT of Daylight Savings Time. This works because Fernurion's area does not obverse Daylight Savings Time. Since Fernurion is also the one who records the show, the show is set up so that we will ALWAYS finish the preshow and begin the live show proper at 12:00P.M.(noon) Fernurion Time. And so, after one simple calculation (That I'll Break Down Below the next bullet pointed section) you'll never need to think to hard Daylight Savings Time ever again as far as the No Excuses Live Show is concerned. THERE WILL BE SEVERAL EXAMPLES OF HOW TO USE THIS INFORMATION IN THE SECOND HALF OF THIS POST!
Examples of How to Use Fernurion's location and local Show Start Time to Calculate What Time the Show Begins for Your TimezoneHow to Calculate the Live No Excuses Show Time Without a Smartphone, Tablet, or PC No Matter What Time of Year it is or Wherever You MayLive:Once we do a little math you will only have to remember to
MOVE THE START TIME of the live show
FORWARDS one hour (when switching
TO Daylight Savings Time) or to
MOVE THE START TIME of the live show
BACKWARDS one hour(when switching
TO Standard Time).
First you need to figure out our current time zone and it's UTC offset. This is easily done by a quick good search. For this example we'll just use my timezone, which is the Atlanta/New York Eastern USA timezone, to show you how it's done. My current official timezone designation,
BECAUSE I CURRENTLY AM ON DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME, is Eastern Daylight Time(EDT)with a UTC offset of -4. The other more widely know timezone that my area is designated with is Eastern Standard Time (EST) with a UTC offset of -5. However the east coast of the USA only uses EST when we are on
STANDARD TIME.
That's one piece of the puzzle, now we have to decrypt the information about Fernurion's local time and timezone so we can use it. The Important things to remember is that his timezone of AEST has a +10 UTC offset, and that the show start time is 12:00P.M.(Noon) for Fernurion's local Time. Lets just keep those bits of data handy for now.
Now lets find us a nearby clock set to the correct current time of our timezone. Let's play pretend and say the clock is running super accurately and is currently telling me that it's 5:00P.M. EDT(-4 offset).
Now let's finally see what all this UTC offset business is about. Firstly the UTC timezone is exactly like AEST in that it does
NOT observe Daylight Savings Time. Every timezone has what is called an "offset" that can be positive (+) or negative (-). These offsets tell us how many hours ahead (for positive offsets) or behind (for negative offsets) a timezone is from the UTC timezone.
So how does this knowledge help us. Well using the same principal we can figure out how far off from our own time Fernurion's local time over in Brisbane, Australia is. We know that Fernurion's timezone is AEST +10UTC meaning he is
10 HOURS AHEAD of UTC. For us over in the EDT timezone we have an offset of -4UTC so we are
4 HOURS BEHIND the UTC timezone. Remember that UTC has 0 offset to itself so it won't factor into what we're about to do.
Remember we are trying to find the distance(measured in hours) of the gap between us, NOT TO ADD INTEGERS, so the fact that our offset is negative doesn't matter because we are still 4 units away from fernurion. If you're confused about that think of a ruler with positive and negative numbers that you're trying to find the distance between two points on. It doesn't matter if the numbers are positive or negative because you're look for distance not value.
Knowing what we know now we can take the integers in our offsets and add them together to figure out how many hours ahead of us Fernurion is. Our 4 plus Fernurion's 10 gives us 14 (4 + 10 = 14)! So we know Fernurion is 14 hours ahead of us.
Remember how we are pretending it is currently 5:00P.M. EDT locally for us? Now it's time to use that to figure out what time the show starts for us! First we take our time of 5:00P.M. and simply add 14 hours to it get 7:00A.M.(5 + 14 = 19 19- 12 = 7). We add instead of subtract because we're counting the number of hours
AHEAD of us that Fernurion is. So this means it is currently 7:00A.M. in the AEST timezone where Fernurion lives. Now we subtract the number of his current times hour from the number of the show start time hour to get 5 (12 - 7 = 5). Now we know the show is in 5 hours. So lets add that 5 hours to our 5:00P.M. to get 10:00P.M.! We did it! Now we know what time the live show starts, and we didn't even need a computer or the internet!
How to Figure Out Your Own Local Show Start Time With the Ability to Look up Local Times Globally:Okay, so what we just did was the hard way of doing it. Let's actually use technology this time. For this method all we'll need is the city Fernurion lives in and what time the show starts for him. Here's a quick reminder. Fernurion Lives in Brisbane, Australia observing AEST and the show begins for him at 12:00P.M.(noon)[/b]. Now lets go on the internet and look up something along the lines of "Current Local Time For Brisbane Australia AEST". Now keep that tab or window on your PC, tablet, or smartphone handy for a little bit and don't close it just yet. Now lets find our hypothetical correct local clock in our room again. Let's pretend it's 5:00P.M. EDT for us once again. Let's remember our own local time. Now we go back to our webpage that is telling us Brisbane, Australia's current local time to see what time it is over there. According to the website it is currently 7:00A.M. over there. Now the next step is easy, just count the hours until it WOULD be 12:00P.M. in Brisbane. Well we know that noon comes after 7:00A.M. in much less than 12 hours so we only have to use the face numbers on the clock this time for our subtraction. So we subtract 7 from 12 (12 - 7)this time which is 5. That difference is the number of hours till show time! Yay, so how to we calculate when the show starts for our time that we're all pretending is 5:00P.M. EDT for the moment. We simply take the time on our clock and add the 5 hours till show time to get the time when the show will be going live on air for us! Now we add 5 hours to our local time of 5:00P.M.(5 + 5) which gives us 10:00P.M. Hurray! Now we know that the show airs for us while we are ON Daylight Savings Time at 10:00P.M. EDT.
How to Just Look Up the Show Time For Your Local Time Zone:What? That's is that Still to much work for you!? Fine ya know what, we'll just do it the easy way then. All you need to do is remember that Fernurion Time is AEST and the show begins at 12:00P.M. for him. I'll even give you the URL for the best website to get this answer from. You won't even have to click a single link after it loads if you have autocomplete turned on. Here's the address:
www.google.com. Just go to Google and type in "12:00P.M. AEST to "your local timezone" ". You don't even have to click on a single link. Assuming we're still pretending to all be on EDT Google will just straight up tell us that 12:00P.M. in AEST is 10:00P.M. EDT. Just search for your own local timezone and there's your answer. *grumble* *grumble* Y'all are so spoiled... So obviously the first example is for the technologically impaired, the second example is for those with limited internet, and the third example is the one 99.9% of people who have the ability to listen to No Excuses in the first place will use. Wasn't it fun learning about timezones though? Maybe a little? No? *sigh*
How to Move Your Local Show Start Time When the Clocks Change:Silliness aside, now you won't even have to do more than add or subtract more than one hour from the show start time ever again! Recall in the earlier "Addressing the Rumor..." section of this post how we discussed how because the show is locked to Fernurion's local time of 12:00P.M. and that his timezone doesn't not participate in daylight savings time? Well, to reiterate the main point of that section, it means that we only have to adjust the show time by one hour whenever the clocks change. Let's use our example of the show being at 10:00P.M. EDT. Remember that EDT is the time designation for the USA's east coast when they're
CURRENTLY OBSERVING Daylight Savings Time. Switching
OFF of daylight savings time rolls the clocks back an hour. So, we know that when we move to Standard Time (Designated "EST" when on Standard Time) later in the year that the show will begin at 9:00P.M. EST! Now just remember to do the opposite when Daylight Savings Time rolls back around and you'll never miss a live show again!
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