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

Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx> 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
From: Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx>
To: Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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I hope everyone in the IETF is familiar with sites such as:
<http://www.timeanddate.com/>
<http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/>


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 30 Oct 2013, at 08:25, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
>
> > On 30 Oct 2013, at 09:13, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
> >
> >> IETF must use only UTC when announcing a worldwide event.
> >
> > I don’t know about “only UTC" for events that are also visited locally,
> but giving the UTC time as well would be a good idea.  Even more so for a
> event that is days from a local time zone change.
> >
> > Beyond UTC, I would normally point to
> >
> >       http://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/agenda-utc
>
> This was something I suggested a couple of IETFs ago, and the tools team
> implemented it very quickly.
>
> I think if you have constructive suggestions that can be implemented, the
> tools team is all ears :)
>
> Tim
>
>