Wikipedia talk:Wikiday

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[edit] Cool idea

Nice idea, I just adore the colors. One thing though: Europe in GMT? There are about four European countries using GMT, and about thirty European countries using Central European Time. And that's not counting the African countries.

I realise there are loads of Brits editing on Wiki, but likewise there are quite a lot of other North Europeans on the net. It seems to me that basing it on the number of potential editors has less of a "WP:BIAS".

Besides, CET covers a larger area. Using timezones for this purpose is especially useful to cover larger areas under one zone. For example, CET is only one off with GMT, so is serves to show daylight in both areas. But GMT is already two off with Eastern European Time, and is less useful already. The GMT zone has only two "neighbours", CET (useful) and the Atlantic (not useful unless we count ancient civilisations). CET is simply more... well... central.

Well...this is the english wikipedia. However if we are going to base it off of potential editors, by all means, use CET. GMT has served as a "zero time" for decades though. --Crucible Guardian 23:26, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Or we could just put it on Amsterdam Time, that would suit me just fine. :-)

Cheers, The Minister of War^(Peace) 14:59, 6 December 2005 (UTC)