benchmark user-timezone per server...

[jeskeca]

You can probably do this during the upload process by grabbing the browser timezone at the time of upload. This would allow us to figure out which timezone the players on the servers typically live in, which would dramatically help figure out how to get in a raid guild with people in your timezone.

Adding information to the guild info about raid start times and timezones with a nice search would be good too. (I'm having a heck of a time finding a guild which starts raids at 7-9pm pacific time on any server)

[Rollie]

I'm not really sure that utilizing the prescribed mechanism would really give the data you are looking for.

On the flip side, I do want to add some easier guild recruitment sections to the site.

[jeskeca]

I agree. In thinking about it, the number of people on a server who actually submit census data must be so small that it would not provide a representative sample of timezones on that server. However, there must be an automated way to get this data. For example, perhaps alla or thott could report the time-of-day that a given boss-kill occurs, as a proxy for raid start times.

I welcome better guild reporting tools, especially those which allow guilds to explain critical information such as raid start times. However, getting everyone focused on a single recruiting channel may be very difficult. If we can think of an automated mechanism to provide directional information for users, that would be great.

[Rollie]

I agree there. And unfortunately the type of tools I am looking to provide will depend on the guilds themselves to update recruitment information so it will not be up to date for every guild out there.