What time is best for you to game?

[MetalDog]

I love to play games.  And I love to have people to play them with.  Unfortunately, my online time is not the same as everyone elses.  So I thought I would start up a thread in Computer Wargaming in hopes that opponents can find one another.  It's what we are all here for anyways.  If it takes off, I hope one of the mods will sticky it.

The best time for me is weekend mornings in the Eastern Time Zone of the U.S.  If need be, I am willing to sacrifice a little sleep to accommodate an early start.  Forgot, should include I am GMT -6, I think.

[Ubercat]

Weekday mornings are best for me, followed by nights after 8PM. I'm in the Eastern US timezone as well.

I have a bunch of great games on Vassal, as well Matrix World in Flames, which I am still learning.

[BanzaiCat]

I'm in the Central Time Zone. I sometimes have evenings free (say 1700-on) but weekends tend to be better, depending on what the wife has planned of course.

[Kushan]

Anytime on the weekends is best for me, followed by weekday nights after 6pm PST (-8 GMT).

[Martok]

Assuming it's a work-night, midday is generally the best time for me to game (around 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. CST).  I get off work at 7 a.m., and the next few hours after that tend to be spent running errands, checking email/forums/etc., and making myself dinner. 

Not surprisingly, it's difficult for me to participate in MP games, regardless of which time zone the other player(s) is/are in. 

[undercovergeek]

we need a chart or a table so we can see at a glance whos where and when

[republic]

Great idea!  I agree we need a chart also.

I'm available generally 18:00-22:00 Central Standard Time GMT -6

[Barthheart]

Eastern time zone here.

Most weekdays 7pm to 9pm
Most weekends 7am to 9am, 10pm to midnight

[LongBlade]

we need a chart or a table so we can see at a glance whos where and when

Done.

OK, here's the deal. Anyone with the link can see this. Anyone with the link can edit this. If you guys think it's being monkeyed with let me know and I'll dial back the access. Hopefully nobody gets on and drunk posts finding out the next morning we're all playing evenings on Jupiter Aquiferious Time or something.

However, if you think this is too open I'll change the security now. My hope was that you guys can simply add yourselves and adjust your times as you see fit, but I'm happy to reconsider based on popular demand.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuFUtoDXR5LedFV2TUdfLTNnTnhldU5oSU00Xy1HOGc&usp=sharing

[MetalDog]

Thanks, LB!  Very awesome of you to do that!  Helpful, too :)

[undercovergeek]

+1 thanks LB

[BanzaiCat]

Just like a "who's available" white board...good work LB, thanks.

[W8taminute]

Very nice LB thanks!  I hope you don't mind but I added a column for timezone. 

Maybe you could add 7 more columns like this:  Su M T W Th F Sa

In the cells below day of the week column header people could type in the times.  Last column can still be where people can list games or leave other comments.

[Martok]

Good work LB; thanks!  Good idea, W8taminute.  :) 

[W8taminute]

^Thanks Martok.

I modded the table a bit to show what I was thinking.  Need to come up with standard conventions for defining the times in number format so that I can generate a stacked bar chart off the data.