Re: [111attendees] Agenda pains

Good afternoon

Apologies; but why not UTC?

Nigel

On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 at 11:50, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:

> On 2021-07-29, at 18:11, Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I think UTC is best because it’s predictable and sort-of universal.
>
> It also happens to be the standard.
>
> (The waters are muddied because corporations trying to dumb down their
> communication, including the press, tend to call it GMT, which is close.
> Hence people on the street are more likely to know “GMT” than “UTC”.)
>
> Call it “world time” and it is unambiguous (“1500Z” == “1500 world”) and
> has the lowest number of syllables.
>
> Being able to operate in world time is a skill that is becoming ever more
> important to many of us, so we might want to get with the program.
>
> > Meeting local timezone is at least predictable when you know where the
> meeting “is”
>
> "Meeting local” timezone is meaningless for anyone except at the meeting
> location.  Nobody is actually at the virtual meeting location, so why waste
> time with this?  (Once we go hybrid and use printed schedules again, the
> “browser time” of the printed schedule is the “meeting local” time,
> though.  But that is only relevant for printed matter; it MUST never be
> used for online information.)
>
> > Local is most convenient, but only if it is set correctly.
>
> “Browser local” is probably a more accurate term.  If the timezone on your
> computer (which is what the browser uses) is not set to your local time,
> you might have a problem, but not just with IETF meetings :-)
>
> Re the +1 notation:  There is a simpler way, used on my eclectic schedule:
>
> 1900-2100  Session I
> 2130-2230  Session II
> 2300-2500  Session III
>
> If you can count, this should work for you.
> (Not too great with negative, so once we meet on Tonga = UTC+13, we’ll
> need to get used to some modulo arithmetic:
>
> 9900-0100  Session 1
> 0130-0230  Session 2
> 0300-0500  Session 3
>
> I’m not sure Tonga is on the shortlist; Auckland in Winter [Northern
> Summer] might be, though.)
>
> Grüße, Carsten
>
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