HRWiki:IRC channel

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An IRC channel is available for general discussion regarding the Homestar Runner Wiki.

Weekly scheduled chats

The channel is open 24 hours a day, but it's hard to find other people in there at random times. We hold a regularly scheduled chat each week where we discuss the latest Homestar Runner toons and whatever else catches our interest. Please consult the chart below for the scheduled time and day in your time zone.

Chat times in different timezones

UTC Offset	Cities†	Scheduled Chat Time
-1100	Honolulu	10:00am–2:00pm, Monday
-1000	-	11:00am–3:00pm, Monday
-0900	Anchorage*, Vancouver*,	Noon–4:00pm, Monday
-0800	San Francisco*, Seattle*, Los Angeles*	1:00pm–5:00pm, Monday
-0700	Phoenix, Aklavik*, Edmonton*, Denver*	2:00pm–6:00pm, Monday
-0600	Guatemala, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa, Mexico City*, Winnipeg*, Minneapolis*, Saint Paul*, Houston*, New Orleans*, Chicago*, Montgomery*, Managua*	3:00pm–7:00pm, Monday
-0500	Indianapolis, Lima, Kingston, Bogota, Atlanta*, Detroit*, Havana*, Toronto*, Nassau*, Washington DC*, Ottawa*, Philadelphia*, New York*, Montreal*, Boston*	4:00pm–8:00pm, Monday
-0400	Santiago*, Santo Domingo, La Paz, Caracas, San Juan, Asuncion*, Halifax*	5:00pm–9:00pm, Monday
-0330	St. John's*	5:30pm–9:30pm, Monday
-0300	Buenos Aires, Montevideo*, Brasilia*, Sao Paulo*, Rio de Janeiro*	6:00pm–10:00pm, Monday
-0200	-	7:00pm–11:00pm, Monday
-0100	-	8:00pm–Midnight, Monday
+0000	Reykjavik, Casablanca, Lisbon*, Dublin*, London*, Lagos	9:00pm–1:00am, Monday/Tuesday
+0100	Algiers, Madrid*, Barcelona*, Paris*, Brussels*, Amsterdam*, Geneva*, Zürich*, Frankfurt*, Oslo*, Copenhagen*, Rome*, Berlin*, Prague*, Zagreb*, Vienna*, Stockholm*, Budapest*, Belgrade*, Warsaw*	10:00pm–2:00am, Monday/Tuesday
+0200	Cape Town, Johannesburg, Harare, Sofia*, Athens*, Tallinn*, Helsinki*, Bucharest*, Minsk*, Istanbul*, Kiev*, Odesa*, Cairo*, Ankara*, Jerusalem*, Beirut*, Amman*	11:00pm–3:00am, Monday/Tuesday
+0300	Khartoum, Nairobi, Addis Ababa, Aden, Riyadh, Antananarivo, Kuwait City, Moscow*, Baghdad*	Midnight–4:00am, Tuesday
+0330	Tehran*	12:30am–4:30am, Tuesday
+0400	Abu Dhabi,	1:00am–5:00am, Tuesday
+0430	Kabul	1:30am–5:30am, Tuesday
+0500	Karachi, Tashkent, Islamabad, Lahore	2:00am–6:00am, Tuesday
+0530	Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata	2:30am–6:30am, Tuesday
+0545	Kathmandu	2:45am–6:45am, Tuesday
+0600	Dhaka	3:00am–7:00am, Tuesday
+0630	Yangon	3:30am–7:30am, Tuesday
+0700	Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta	4:00am–8:00am, Tuesday
+0800	Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Hong Kong, Perth, Beijing, Manila, Shanghai, Taipei	5:00am–9:00am, Tuesday
+0900	Seoul, Tokyo	6:00am–10:00am, Tuesday
+0930	Darwin, Adelaide*	6:30am–10:30am, Tuesday
+1000	Melbourne*, Canberra*, Sydney*, Brisbane, Vladivostok*	7:00am–11:00am, Tuesday
+1100	-	8:00am–Noon, Tuesday
+1200	Wellington*, Suva, Kamchatka*, Anadyr*	9:00am–1:00pm, Tuesday

• †Cities listed are only indicative, and are inaccurate during Daylight Saving Time.
• *Indicates city observes Daylight Saving Time in Summer. When DST is in effect, add one hour to UTC offset.

IRC clients

An IRC client is a program you can use to connect to any IRC chat channel. Popular IRC clients include:

• ChatZilla (open source) — ChatZilla is an IRC client extension for most Mozilla-based browsers (Mozilla App Suite, Mozilla Firefox, etc).
• Gaim (open source) — Gaim can connect to multiple chat networks (including AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger). It also works on many different operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac, etc).
• mIRC (commercial) — mIRC is one of the most popular IRC clients with a lot of great features.
• Trillian (commercial) — Trillian connects to multiple chat networks (including AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger). It has more features than Gaim, but only works in Windows.