Aha, that's different! 14 hours ahead of forum time, yes?
I'm in Tokyo; 13 hours ahead of forum time.
Can we stop using forum time as a timezone? I never have any idea what it is and I can't even google it.
I like "forum time" because a) it's used by most mods to dictate deadlines; and b) it's exactly the time shown by the clock in the top right of the webpage page. So that's why I keep using it. For me, referencing everything to the frame of time the game is actually running in makes the most sense, because it requires the fewest extra calculations.
Having mods state deadlines in a more European timezone like UTC would highlight the fact that most of the deadlines are infeasible for Europeans who need to be awake for usual work hours, so I could get behind that plan to a certain extent :-) Not sure it's going to get support from the vast US contingent, or out friends in the far east/south.
Personally, I find UTC weird because it's sometimes my timezone and sometimes not.. I don't know what proportion of players live somewhere where the clocks change for summer/winter, but if it's most of us, then that's an argument for picking a clock in a place where it's the same time of day at the same reference time as consistently as possible. Forum time shifts back and forth an hour slightly out of synch with the UK, but only by a week or two.