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I made a website with a shortish url for low participation series (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/iracing@lemmy.ml
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I published a new iRacing site last night, maybe someone here will think it’s useful?

https://whenrace.com

I like racing in some of the low participation series on iRacing (Kamel GT, GT Challenge, Mission R, etc.) I wanted a site where folks could reference the SoF race times for their favorite series, and with a short URL that would be easy to share in iRacing text chat or even verbally. So I came up with “when race?” I used the list compiled in the forums by Ellis Spice as a starting point and will continue to evolve it as time goes on.

When you choose a series, the URL updates too so you can share a direct link to a specific series: https://whenrace.com/gtc

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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Showing GMT plus auto conversion to my local timezone is super nice

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago

    Thank you! I first did this on https://kamelgt.com as when I’d be chatting with a racer in a practice session, it was difficult for me to remember the time of the race in GMT, and it was difficult for others to convert it to their local time zone. Saying “eh, just go to the site and it will tell you what times you can show up to race.” was far easier for everyone involved.

    It even works if the time is about to change to DST or BST, etc. the calculation is done once per second. So if you hang around at 2am during a time change, you’d see it spring forward or fall back. This seems like overkill, but it’s needed for situations like when the time changes and all of a sudden next week’s race is an hour earlier, but today’s race is still at the regular time.

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    • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    This is an awesome idea, thanks for sharing, I'll be sure to pass this along in my racing!

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