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[GeneralHankerchief]

In order to cut down on the number of stickies, I'm replicating the content of TinCow's original post here:

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I have added a new feature to the forums to make it easier for players to know when mafia game phases are over. It is a bbcode timer which counts down to any date and time specified. The bbcode format is [timer] and you can enter it manually, or click the timer icon on the advanced editor ().

The bbcode must be formatted in the following manner:

[TIMER=M/D/YYYY H:MM AM/PM ZONE; TIMEUP PHRASE][/_TIMER] (remove the underscore though)

Where

• M = The Month number, with or without a 0. So, for August, either 8 or 08.
• D = The Day number, with or without a 0. So, for the fifth day, either 5 or 05.
• YYYY = The Year in full four digit number format
• H: The Hour, with or without a 0. So, for the seventh hour, either 7 or 07.
• MM = The Minute, so quarter past the hour would be 15, half past would be 30, and on the hour would be 00.
• AM/PM = AM or PM
• ZONE = Time Zone of the deadline. It is very important that you put this in. If you do not, the timer will display the local time for each person viewing it, which means people in different parts of the world will see different (and incorrect) times. The time zone codes accept all of the usual zone abbreviations, such as UTC, GMT, EST, EDT, PST, PDT, etc. You can also use UTC referential times, such as UTC-1, UTC-2, UTC+7, etc.
• TIMEUP PHRASE = Whatever text you want it to display when the timer is finished, such as "Day Phase Over" or "Night Phase Over".

So, to create a timer counting down to a Night Phase which ends on August 24, 2015 at 5pm, GMT, I would create the following bbcode:

[TIMER=4/20/2069 4:20 PM GMT; Night Phase Over][/_TIMER]

and it looks like this once I removed that underscore from the bbcode:



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Common timer troubleshooting issues:

If you're the host and you input a timer, it will not immediately display if you create or edit your post using the Quick Reply feature - you'll have to refresh the page to get it. If you use the normal Reply feature, it should display immediately.

If the timer is displaying incorrectly for you, there are a couple of reasons for this:
- Check to see if the full year is inputted as opposed to just the abbreviation (i.e. 2015 as opposed to just 15) - this causes an issue with some browsers (h/t therother).
- If the host forgets to input the timezone (GMT, EDT, etc) then the timer will default to your local timezone. Unless you live in the same timezone as the host, this will obviously render it inaccurate.

More tips/workarounds will be added as the problems come up.