Need to synchronise watches before we go over the top

I'm on Mountain time. It's 3:15 on Sunday afternoon here. Eastern Standard Time would be 5:15 Sunday afternoon (we're two hours behind them.)

Can someon explain this flash fiction to me?

And remember: Whatever happens, they have got, the Maxim gun, and we have not.

It's 4:29 p.m. over here. Guess CST isn't good enough.

Oh I see.

Thank you.

Eastern Standard Time. I wonder what that is in real money.

Is that American EST or Australian EST?

akiwiguy said:

OK, the shortest thread in history, cause I just need to know one thing please.

Just in case I decide on doing that flash fiction thingey sometime, I'm checking what time I need to be on here, and I think at this time of the year EST is 19 hours behind us, but not sure. Some of the web sites giving this info seem inconsistent. Can some kind soul tell me here just their current EST at time of post so I can compare with the time of post I'm seeing. Pretty please.

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I'm in EST, your first post in the thread shows 4:48PM, so to get to 9PM it starts four hours and 12 minutes after the first post in this thread. Does that clear it up? My EST is 6:15, so I have 2 hours and 45 minutes until the start.

akiwiguy said:

Well I've never done it, but the jist seems to be that at 9:00pm EST Sundays a topic is posted and you have 90 minutes to write a story. It's a forum under "Writing Exercises Prompts and Games" or whatever it's called. Looks kinda fun.

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I've done it (and ended up posting stories) perhaps half the Sundays in the past several months since it started. It's been lots of fun to me, and the most amazing thing is some people actually like some of my stories!

But it's even less restrictive than you give. You have 24 hours from the start time to do it. Just don't read the prompt (that also means don't read "New Posts" or posts in the FF challenge forum during this time, as the story threads show up with the prompt in the thread titles), and when you're ready, read the prompt and then you have 90 minutes from the moment you read the prompt to write and post your story. But most of us do it when the prompt first becomes available, because I suppose it's just more fun that way, doing it all together. Also, many of us "hang out" in the chatroom before, during and after the event.

Is there a word limit?

Nope, just a time limit. 90 minutes to write, edit, and post from the time it starts (or, if you start later from whenever you read the prompt.) If you're in the AW chat room, there's always a reminder post by one of the OP's to let you know the prompt is up, etc.

I've participated a few times and had fun. Join us! (in a little over 1 1/2 hours from the time of this post.)

33 minutes for anyone still figuring out when to start.

What's the prompt?

For next time, akiwiguy: world time server. You can check just about anywhere in the world.

Jo~ said:

For next time, akiwiguy: world time server. You can check just about anywhere in the world.

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For Queensland, just check the time for Sydney and subtract twenty years.