User talk:Dundradal

I'm not sure where a suitable place to discuss general things that aren't specific to a particular article might be, so I'll just write something here for now. I just wanted to say that I plan to use the extra material released for the CIC's birthday to upload some nicer images from WC3, if they happen to be better quality than the digital PC video (still in the process of downloading, servers are understandably burdened immediately after the party). Hopefully, they're not too blurry or fuzzy or heavily compressed. I just wanted to let everyone know in case someone else thought to do the same, to avoid duplication of effort. - Wedge

All done, for pre-existing WC3 FMV images. - Wedge

Question About Time-Stamps

Do you know who controls the formatting of time-stamps in signatures? Did it change with the recent upgrade? The reason I ask is that the time-zone seems to have changed from UTC as used previously to United States Central Time + Daylight Savings. This really is uncomfortable to work for anyone outside the United States and will even change when moving between Standard and Summer Times. There are proposals to make this a user parameter, but they aren't implemented yet and may never be. Would it be possible to revert to the UTC time-zone, please, in the interests of international co-operation and standardisation? - Wedge

You misunderstand me. I know about the time settings in the Preferences section: those affect what you see on article history logs, etc. But the time-stamps given in signatures seem to be fixed by the system - case in point, your last message to me was signed with a time-stamp of United States Central Time, Daylight Savings. What's the best way to contact Kris, if he's the only one who can control this? - Wedge

Mmm, I'm not sure about that. When I preview using my 4-tilde signature, it comes out to United States Central Time as well. I suppose I can use the history logs as a work-around for now, but if you want to know why I make such a fuss about this, here's what I wrote while you were updating my Talk Page:

Your earlier comment (on my Talk Page) before the upgrade uses UTC, which is standard and useful because I can mentally say, 'Ah, Dund posted that at 08:13+1000, my local time.' Whereas after the upgrade, United States Central Daylight Savings Time is meaningless to me. Time-zone abbreviations aren't even standard and can have multiple ambiguous meanings. I'm just rather annoyed with the Internet not being the international-friendly place that it should be: the sooner people are aware of these sort of issues, the sooner people can adopt standards designed to be equitable for everyone. - Wedge

In some ways, it's a shame that article titles are case-sensitive. Do we have a standard or convention with regards to capitalisation of article/category/etc title names? Is it worth having a discussion on this? I know it's probably quite trivial, but it can cause problems with linking to articles when the only difference is a capital letter or two. - Wedge

Kris kris kris --Dundradal 14:53, 14 August 2010 (CDT)