Times Act

Cryo · December 18, 2022, 4:50pm

NOTE OF AMENDMENT | Updating the Times Act Passed

SUMMARY

Following the move to the new forum, the Times Act’s provisions were largely useless. As such, [2239.AB] was introduced to update the Act to fit the new times.

TIME IN EFFECT

Amended on the 18th of December, 2022.

RELEVANT THREADS

(Debate thread | Voting thread)

Times Act

An act to establish a common timezone a time standard for all official deadlines

1. Scope

(1) This act applies to all legal deadlines used by government entities in the South Pacific.

2. Official Timezone Time Standard

(1) All legal deadlines posted on the official forums that establish a specific hour and minute must use the official Time bbcode, to ensure displayed times are shown in local timezones use the built-in “date” code functionality.

(2) All other legal deadlines posted in other venues shall contain a conspicuous link to a countdown timer using the Time and Date Live Countdown Timerand a conversion to London, New York, and Sydney using the Time and Date Time Zone Converter, regardless of what timezone is utilized in the official notice.

(3) (2) When publishing non-legal deadlines, conformance to this act is strongly encouraged.

Addendum - Example of Compliant Date & Time Codes

Individual date & time: [date=2022-12-06 time=11:30:00 format="LLLL z" timezone="America/Los_Angeles"]

Date & time range: [date-range from=2022-12-06T11:30:00 to=2022-12-06T11:30:00 format="LLLL z" timezone="America/Los_Angeles"]