Re: [111attendees] timing

"John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Thu, 29 July 2021 16:44 UTC

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> It easy for one person to tell many students a single time (UTC), but it
> is difficult for each student to convert that to their particular case.
>
> Yes as difficult as typing something like "0300 utc in tokyo" into their browser.

And a whole lot easier than "1500 Los Angeles time to Germany time" since 
that can have three different answers depending on the day of the year.

So anyway, I appreciate that our agenda has both UTC and a one-click 
conversion to local time.

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John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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