Time for the chat

[ThomasT]

Ok guys for you who haven't found out about the chat group yet... I am putting up a chat group for everyone who wants to join! We are doing different topics each week and I am going to put a poll up to see what time you all want to do it... Remember its in central time!!! After each chat tips that people have learned that are new and any disccussion along with anything fun or things like that will be posted for all you people who couldnt make it!!! I would like to thank Gary Tami and Wendy and all the others who helped me do this and I hope to see you all in the chat!!!

Please PM Me if you have anything to suggest or post it and if you have any trouble joining the group please PM me!

The site is again http://groups.msn.com/PhotoshopElementsUserChat/_whatsnew.msnw

Thomas

[ThomasT]

Come on Folks I need more people to vote so we can see what and when we are doing this if we are that is...

Thomas

[karen donnybrook]

Good morning all,

This is my first post to any of the forums on this site but I have been reading everything for about a week.

Those chat times are "Central Time" where? :? I am in Western Australia and need to be able to convert these times to my own time zone.

Thank you

[Wendy]

Hi Karen ...

... and welcome to the forum :)

I'm in the UK so it confuses me too ... Central time seems to be GMT -5 hours. Does that help ??


Wendy

[GaryK]

Hi Karen

Welcome to the forums.

I'm guessing U.S. .. Thats where Thomas lives, but I didn't think he was in Central time :)
Heck I havent adjusted for daylight savings time and it's almost time to switch back. :lol:

[Carbone]

Central Time is GMT - 6 (and keep in mind we're about to change the time in a few weeks).

Ray

[Wendy]

On of the best ways of working out the time differences is to ask someone to type the time into the body of their message ... then you can compare it to the time of the message itself (which should show in your own time zone ... well it does if you set it up in your profile)

So here goes ... in the UK it is now 23.48 ..:)

Wendy

[GaryK]

Ray

So I'm in Central time??? :lol: :lol: :oops: :oops:

I dont have to change back..never went forward.. at least as far as my profile time here. :)

[Wendy]

Gary ... Just to confuse the issue at thr moment the UK is on GMT + 1 hour (due to British Summer Time)


Wendy

[GaryK]

Wendy... I just left mine at GMT -5. we well be that again in a week or so :lol:

[Wendy]

Gary ...

Oh I am glad that I was born in GMT ... its so much easier to cope with :)


Wendy

[Carbone]

Gary,

You're EST (Eastern Standard Time)

See the map below (link to) :

http://www.timetemperature.com/tzca/canada_time_zone.shtml

Ray

[Wendy]

... and here is one from me too:

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/info/timezone.htm


Wendy

[Carbone]

Apparently, I made a mistake and EST is GMT - 4, so CST is GMT - 5.

Sorry for the confusion. I should stick to what I know best :-D

It's 11h PM GMT, now, right ? In Montréal and Toronto, it's 7h04 (so it is in New-York, Florida, and some other place south I can't think of!)

Ray

[Wendy]

Ray ...

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Oh I am so glad I live in GMT :)

Wendy

[jazzfisher]

I have no idea what time I'm in.
I looked on one of those sites it said I'm at -8 GMT---but we are still on daylight savings until next week.
Right now for me it is 4.25 pm Thursday afternoon.

[Wendy]

Sherry ...

We are on daylight saving too ... so you are still 8 hours behind the UK. Its now past midnight here ... so it Friday morning for me :)


Wendy

[GaryK]

So how is Friday shaping up???

[Carbone]

TGIF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:-D

Ray

[G. OReilly]

:D :D Carbone it's still Thur here !!!
George

[Carbone]

Here too, but since I only have one left day of work 'til the Weekend... well, TGIAF then :)

(Almost Friday..)

Ray

[GaryK]

Its friday somewhere :lol: :lol: good enough for me. Time for a libation of choice. :wink:

[G. OReilly]

Boy that was quick !!!!!! 8)

[jazzfisher]

Hey,
Drinks all around, I heard Gary is paying....

[Carbone]

I'm gonna have that blue stuff, yeah, that one, with the glowing green pellets at the bottom.

Thanks ;-)

Hickup !

Ray

[ThomasT]

Ok I am in est time I dont know what that is...Sorry guys just trying to generalise uhh... right now its 7:48 PM so central time is a hour behind me so in central time is 6:48 PM and I am in the US of A..... :? Sorry this is so confusing... should of thought about the time before I did anything else I completely forgot about the different countrys we are all in... thats why I was told to put the time from 12PM to 2PM.... I dont know what else to say.. I hope everyone has signed up....


The heck with it.... We are doing EST time heres the link this is what time it is in GMT....
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/florida/

Thomas

[Wendy]

Well its now Friday 1 a.m. and I guess I'll have that drink that Gary is buying and then get off to bed :)


Wendy

[ThomasT]

Wendy Since we have switched to eastern time now since its 1 oclock in the morning there its 8 oclock PM here 5 hour time difference

so if we did it from 8 till 10 pm your time, eastern time would be 3 till 5 pm do you want to do that or if you cant do that tell me!

[Wendy]

Thomas ...

I'm usually online a little later than that ... around 11pm to 1.30 am that is currently GMT +1 hour (well until the 30th October ... then we are back to GMT)

Because you all ask question so late into the evening I seem to end up working the night shift :)

Wendy

[virgo1]

The switch from daylight savings to standard time in the US is October 30 (I think). Friday will be here fast enough. I have a doctors appointment at 1015 (grumble grumble).

Eva :wink:

[karen donnybrook]

Hello Everyone,

Thanks for the welcome.

I think I am more confused than ever now!! We are GMT+8 hours (without taking into account daylight saving in the UK). We do not have daylight saving on the west coast of Australia and that means that during the summer we are 3 hours behind the eastern states,

It is 08:20 Friday morning the 21st of October

[ThomasT]

I am switching the times for the Chat from 12-2PM eastern Saturday to
7-9PM eastern time Saturday.. so Wendy thats 12-2AM you can leave early if you want...

Ok... PM me Karen and we will work something out... Wendy I think we are going to do it during the evening on saturday so everyone can just sit down and relax and chat I am going to get everything up and going with Tami hopefullyy....

So the new times are
EST 7-9PM USA
GMT 12-2 AM UK

[GaryK]

Thomas

Give it a try and see how it works out..no time is perfect for everybody..the same as no day is.

[ThomasT]

Very true Gary, What time would it be there for you canada folk if its from 7-9 here in EST....

Thomas

[Carbone]

Canada & US share a common zoning for time. EST in US is the same as EST in Canada.

7 to 9 EST is 8 to 10 in St-John's, Charlottetown, Fredericton
7 to 9 EST is 7 to 9 in Montreal, Toronto.
It's 6 to 8 in Regina
It's 5 to 7 in Edmonton, Saskatoon, Calgary
It's 4 to 6 in Vancouver, Victoria

My very limited knownledge of US geography makes it difficult to pinpoint cities for each time zone, sorry..

Ray

[ThomasT]

Carbone that is good enough for everyone!!! THANK YOU SOO MUCH!!!

And remember folks we are hopefully haveing 2 special guests there that night so keep your fingers crossed!!!

[Carbone]

Guests.. ? Bill Gates and Steve Jobs will debate about colour management ??

(just kidding !)

Ray

[Carbone]

Thomas,

There's a big problem, at least at my end. MSN Chat doesn't work with either Safari or Internet Explorer (for Mac). Could anyone else with a Mac test it ?

I am able to reach the chat room, but I need to fire up Virtual PC which is a big show stopper for almost every other Mac users around.

If the Mac compatibility is still an issue, maybe should we consider some other form of chat room, such as an IRC channel or Yahoo! group ?

Ray

[Carbone]

One other thought... using MSN Messenger (version 5 for Mac, or 7 for PC) is maybe a better option. It's been a long time, I wonder if we can be many in the same conversation.. ?

Ray

[ThomasT]

The thing is with MSN Messenger its a small im message so it would be hard to read the conversation and with irc its a big virus...Sorry if you disagree but I mean I got a virus from it and I will never use it again... Yahoo groups has a chat but all there stuff is adult orentiented and I dont really like it that much... Uhh I dont think so because my mom had a mac and she got in fine..Did you change your browser's security settings to High? Doing so prevents the necessary ActiveX controls from running. To modify your browser's security or cookie settings, see the appropriate Help topic.


Thomas

[GaryK]

Ray

Bummer about MSN chat.... any reason that you know of for why it doesn't work?
I'll ask the my kids about Messenger..they are on it all the time :) . I only use it to say hi to my son in University the odd time.

One other thing for people wanting to do the MSN chat thing..you must sign up before you can enter chat. Use the initial link that Thomas has posted to set up an account.

[Carbone]

Gary, Thomas,

The problem is that MSN Chat uses ActiveX, and ActiveX have not been ported over on the Mac. Now, Messenger's window can be maximize to fit the screen...

Ok, ask your Mom to join the chat room with Safari on the Mac. Let me know how this proceed, I'll be there on Windows (Virtual PC).

Ray

[Carbone]

Here's the greeting I get with Safari, under Mac OS X :

http://homepage.mac.com/carbmac/Safari001.jpg

It clearly says Windows 95 or later, and that no UNIX Operating systems is supported (Mac OS is UNIX at its core).

Ray

[Grant]

Unfortunatley MSN Chat will not work with Mac ... sorry thought everyone knew that.

Grant

[ThomasT]

Ok I will have to try something else.. I will put up a poll on who has MSN messenger so we can figure that out will that work for you Carbone...

Thomas

[Carbone]

Thomas,

Don't make new plans just for me, I'm usually at the bar or with some friends on Saturday evenings. Though, if you want to have Wendy or the other Mac users, consult with them.

I have Messenger and I have iChat (which is AIM compatible and standard on every Mac). I think Yahoo! Messenger works also for Mac, so does Skype and Mercury and half a dozen more.

Ray

[ThomasT]

Yea I think we will just go with the messenger I idea like you said... I am really sorry guys for this I hate when I don't look into things without searching first....

Thomas