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Re: IETF must use only UTC in its announcements (Was: Live Streaming of the IETF 88 Technical Plenary

IAB Chair <iab-chair@iab.org> Wed, 30 October 2013 14:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: IETF must use only UTC in its announcements (Was: Live Streaming of the IETF 88 Technical Plenary
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Stephane:

I think that the use of the local timezone make it easy for people to look it up on the agenda.  I do agree that inclusion of UTC as well would have been very helpful.  I'll try to remember to do that in the future.

Russ


On Oct 30, 2013, at 4:13 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 09:10:08AM -0400,
> IAB Chair <iab-chair@iab.org> wrote 
> a message of 54 lines which said:
> 
>> The Technical Plenary session is expected to be popular.  It will be
>> held on Wednesday, 6 Nov 2013 at 0900 PST,
> 
> Why why why using a local timezone when announcing a live broadcast,
> which will be seen by many people anywhere in the world?
> 
> Do note also that there are three different timezones in the world
> which are named PST. Not everyone lives in North America!
> 
> IETF must use only UTC when announcing a worldwide event.
>

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