Let's POD

[Freddy]

Place= Cyberspace (via IP)

Time= 1600-2000 hrs (or later)

Date= weekends

I am available for racing around this time.

During the week, much later but probably no one will be awake

[grokon]

Depends on what you mean by 1600

Here, most of us are WET time (Western European) if I am rigth (GMT + 1) ... but some of our US friends must be GMT +6 to GMT + 9 ...

So, the best way is to spek either in UMT, GMT, Eastern Time, Western time, or Central time ... Damn tough to get it right ...

DERF

[Vortex]

US & Canada
=========
PST (Pacific Standard Time; ex. California, British Columbia) = GMT - 8
MST (Mountain Standard Time; ex. Colorado, Alberta ) = GMT - 7
CST (Central St. Time; ex. Kansas??, Saskatchewan) = GMT - 6
EST (Easter St. Time; ex. New York, Quebec) = GMT - 5

Let's say we meet at 4pm - 8pm (as proposed). In referece to what time? Let's say EST.


UK (Great Britain)
============
GMT (Greenwich Mean Time; ex. UK) = GMT

Then it would still be 9pm - 1am here.


Western Europe (France, Germany, Spain, Italy...etc, etc....oh NOT Belgium...hehe, just kidding)
=======================================================
CET (Central European Time) = GMT + 1

Then it would still be 10pm - 2am here.



Actually I jsut realised that if it's on the weekend, it might actually be possible ;-)

[LPH]

Hal we need a chat to know how much player are actif for play POD.

Or SIK we need a neu Game Service

[Rob]

mIRC Channel #podheadz on server : irc.entethegame.com

That's a nice chat ! ALways people there ! Redline, Rico, Swift, Desiato, Dfg, Me....and dunno who else

[grokon]

What is the config to connect ?

I mean I have the server set to irc.entethegame.com, port to 6667 and group to #podheadz, but I always get the connection refused message ...

Well maybe the derf pseudo is already taken ... but the error message is not so clear then ...

DERF

[Freddy]

US & Canada
=========
PST (Pacific Standard Time; ex. California, British Columbia) = GMT - 8
MST (Mountain Standard Time; ex. Colorado, Alberta ) = GMT - 7
CST (Central St. Time; ex. Kansas??, Saskatchewan) = GMT - 6
EST (Easter St. Time; ex. New York, Quebec) = GMT - 5

Let's say we meet at 4pm - 8pm (as proposed). In referece to what time? Let's say EST.


UK (Great Britain)
============
GMT (Greenwich Mean Time; ex. UK) = GMT

Then it would still be 9pm - 1am here.


Western Europe (France, Germany, Spain, Italy...etc, etc....oh NOT Belgium...hehe, just kidding)
=======================================================
CET (Central European Time) = GMT + 1

Then it would still be 10pm - 2am here.



Actually I jsut realised that if it's on the weekend, it might actually be possible ;-)

**dizzy, as I'm reading all of this**

10 minutes later= **Dizziness has faded away**

Now I have to set all my clocks to those times...

I should have known that this was not going to be easy.

When I used to chat with some French Poddies on ICQ, 1600hrs was always understood as 10pm your local time.

I thought I was addressing to the French Poddies...My mistake I guess.

I POnDer ....Is this a French forum?...Frenchglish?....or .........

just a silly dream?

Just in case I'm not dreaming, ......USA Eastern time

[Vortex]

@grokon - it's irc.enteRthegame.com, not irc.entethegame.com ;-)

[Dfg]

I POnDer ....Is this a French forum?...Frenchglish?....or .........

just a silly dream?

Just in case I'm not dreaming, ......USA Eastern time

I'm not sure to understand what you mean by that, but :
- at the beginning ,it was a french forum
- since the only european players are french or german (or french living in germany ), the forum tends to become a franco-deutsch forum.
- in the end, it doesn't matter because speaking of time, gemany and france are the same ...
- I don't understand at all 1600hrs or 2000hrs ... :-) for me it it juste a huge amount of time ... 16h00 and 20h00 ?

Voila.

[Freddy]

I don't understand at all 1600hrs or 2000hrs ... :-) for me it it juste a huge amount of time ... 16h00 and 20h00 ?

Yes!!!! that 's it 16h00-20h00 or..........10pm-2am Franco-Deutsch time

[Vortex]

Hehe, Dfg, you see usually North Americans always say 4pm or 10am or 9pm, but once in a while they do it like the US Army and say 1600 hrs (spoken: sixteen hundred hours) or 1000 hrs or 2100 hrs ;-) Just remove the '00' at the end and you'll have your European way of saying it, hehe.

[Dfg]

ok ... happy to learn that ...
sixteen hundred hours ... I should watch top gun again

[Vortex]

Well Top Gun is the Air Force (or Fligh section of the Navy) and you don't hear it in those movies that often ;-) But movies about Marines have it all the time. You'll usually here them referring to a time in the morning. So that 8am - 8h00 turns into 0800 "Oh 800 hours" (pronounce 'Oh' like the letter 'O') hehe

[Dfg]

yeah of course ... now that you tell it .... I've seen all the seasons of stargate sg1 and I can t believe I didn t remember it ....

:-) Yeah !

[Freddy]

I am still waiting for a response from anyone that wants to play POD.

I know the hours are not good for all of you, but I can play a little earlier on sundays: 12h00 EST

Anyone still interested, can e-mail me or post.

If I don't find anyone to play with, I guess I'll just keep on POnDering again...

May POD be with you..

[Vortex]

Sure, I'd love to. But probably not within the next few days. I'm currently moving (University), so I won't have much time. I'll let you know when can ;-)

[Freddy]

That's great!!

Let's hope others are willing to join

[grokon]

Anyway, I still have problem, and I think I first should completely re-install my Win98 PC ... I cannot connect to the internet anymore ... and it seems like re-installing the ADSL modem does not fix the problem

I should do it as soon as possible since I haven't tried new POD tracks because of this (and lack of time ... of course )

DERF

[Rob]

I usually come back home around 6 pm GMT +1

And I usually see my girl around 9pm...but not everyday so I should be able to free myself for a Pod session in those time-tables...



Freddy start ICQ when you wanna play !

[Freddy]

Stardate: September 22, 2004

Captain's Log: There are rumors that a "Portal" where Poddies can transport themselves to some tracks on planet IO, could be open for a limited time. Need some daring racers who are willing to take their favorite cars for a spin and hopefully re-live some POD memories of the past.

Time: 18:00 hrs. USA EST

Method: IP Portal (must know access code)

Access Code: 68.194.114.162 (Bandie for logistic reasons needs this code)