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Edit:1/7/11 -
A DD!? Wow Thank you very much. Totally unexpected! 
+OMG calling it 'dAST' would be soooo confusing 1.) This is a suggestion. 2.)Lets break it down: dAST- dA= deviantART ST=Standard Time
1/3/11 - The top area circled in red is an updated visual created for me by ~YuseiDarkUmbreon and below that is the original visual.
deviantART Standard Time
Often when coming across a contest or an event, there will be a time for the deadline/occurrence and that time will probably not be in your timezone. So to figure it out you'd have to go to some other site or ask around.
With dAST all you'd need to do is find the difference between your time and dAST, then you are set.
Lets say it is 12 PM my time. So there is a 3 hour difference (from the time shown above [original visual]).
So for instance...
An event is going to be hosted at 5 PM dAST, which would be 8 PM for me.
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My honest opinion is while the concept is a great idea, it's hard to use. Club Penguin did this, and it's honestly not used as much as it should, since not everyone knows/isn't familiar.
In all honesty though, it is a great idea, and grats on the DD.
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It's a userscript! :3 pickley.deviantart.com/art/devβ¦
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Thank you! I had a hard time finding it again haha
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lol just yesterday I thought I had a brilliant suggestion, and turns out you had said brilliant suggestion first XD this would be awesome!
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Ha! Birds of a feather.. or something
Thanks
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{ I love the idea. Why don't we have this? }
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There's a userscript!Β pickley.deviantart.com/art/devβ¦
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lol, I'm watching this at 9:00 but it's PM for me xD
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[[ Gah, Time Zones are confusing, especially when you're trying to plan to have a chat with a group of deviants that have 5+ different time zones going on. This would be extremely helpful C: You sir, are a genious~ I'm glad you came up with this! Hopefully dA would consider this as something new they should add :] ]]
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dA should really do it.
It's extremly helpful
Great suggestion!
It would be enough just to know which GTM timezone they are. Have no idea what PST time is LOL
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Thanks for the support.
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very nice idea, but this was submitted in 2008 and still nothing. That means dA dont care..
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If you didn't know, it's implemented! Not officially, but you can get it as a userscript.Β pickley.deviantart.com/art/devβ¦
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this would be an awesome addition!! great idea!
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I think we should have time on our profile and the top page next to the drop down icons.
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Amazing idea!
If it was the dA HQ timezone that became dAST, I would have no use for it as I live in the same timezone as dA, but it would be much easier to have an exact time to start whenever I want to have an in-chat contest on my group.
Anyway, great idea. Hope it gets implemented.
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would be nice to actually see it happening after 2 years hehehe...cuz if you are like me who lives in the netherlands and need to figure out which time zone i need to look at and calculate how much time difference is this add would be perfect. This way you can set a dAST time for the contest and its straight to the point and clear for everybody no matter where the hell you are
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If you didn't know, it's implemented! Not officially, but you can get it as a userscript.Β pickley.deviantart.com/art/devβ¦
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Lol the Time display would ve cool but I have no problems with things as is
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what time zonne would they pick for dast tho?
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id imagine it would be PST as that is the timezone HQ is in
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oh... that would make sense
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Then let's just cut to the chase and use +- 0 GMT, like we have for a very long time.
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i couldnt agree more. it's just people who can't figure out what GMT is and what GMT zone they are in... sigh.
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AWESOME.
this is also gonna give people the excuse to do this (for us kiddies with parents still watchin' over us):
"you, GET IN BED! it is THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING!!"
...*looks at parental unit in an astonished/confused manner* "psssh, naw its only 8:00 ma! the hell are you smokin'."
on the other hand, this is also pretty genius n.n
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Yes, I know! dA starts the new day at my 4:00 PM!
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lol they start at 7 PM my time 
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That would be a really nice feature. DeviantART's internal clock for counting statistics seems... Many hours ahead, for an EST'er like myself. Perhaps it's on Greenwich Mean? D:
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It's at least 3 hours a head for me, it's 9 pm and my pageviews are already being counted for the next day and I'm on EST. It bugs the heck out of me.
Glad I'm not the only one it does this(being hours ahead) to.
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Mmhmm. It thought it was tomorrow at around 8:30, too. I'll test it tomorrow in the evening hours to see if I can estimate the hour it's on.
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i feel very oblivious for seeing this got a DD, but just now realizing it got a DD TODAY.
my obliviousness aside, congrats! it really is a great idea.
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