Conquer Club

OK, I am somewhat confuzzled about this whole CCT thing. And here's why:

At the bottom of every forum page it states (and I quote) "All times are UTC - 8 hours"; so that means all times are Pacific Time, which is my time zone here in good 'ol Southern California. As I write, it is 2/19/14 9:13 am. So far, no problemo. But on all the the site pages, in the upper left corner it reads (at this junction of eternity) "Feb 19 12:17 CCT", which is 3 hours ahead of UTC -8 - or from where I sit - Eastern Time, UTC -5.

My query: if all times are UTC -8, how come CCT is UTC -5? If a tournament starts at 12:00 pm CCT, does that mean EST (which would be 9:00 am Pacific)?

This would seem to indicate that CC runs things in 2 time zones; time stamp for forum posts being UTC -8, and everything else UTC -5. So if I wanna get in on a game that starts at 10:00 am CCT, I gotta be ready by 7:00 am PST (not accounting for DST).

If I got this right, next week I'll explain how today is yesterday and tomorrow is today across the International Date Line......

In the Control Panel, you can set your own personal time zone for viewing the forums / game time stamps / live chat... etc so that all times shown are shown in your local time.

However - in order to host events and things like scheduled speed tournaments, we have to have 1 common time so that everyone easily knows when the event starts... and for that we use CCT. CCT is Eastern Time, and is consistent for everyone on CC. When it is used instead of your local time zone, it should always say CCT after the time.

Thank you very muchly. Just the kind of clear-cut answer I was looking for.

I agree. It's CC Time!