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 14:34 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: Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net>
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This is why these tools have an option to set the date when computing
future times.

--Richard


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net> wrote:

> Richard Barnes wrote:
>   I hope everyone in the IETF is familiar with sites such as:
> <http://www.timeanddate.com/>
> <http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/>
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> Yes, but given we're in the throes of timezone mutilation for the purposes
> of playing a longer game of golf, I'm not sure what the offset is, nor what
> it will be by then.
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> If you pick the translation into local now, for most folk in Europe, it'll
> give you 1700. By Wednesday 6th November, it'll be 1800. I think.
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> For UK folk, it'll be 1700. (Which I get by entering Vancouver as the
> timezone in Google calendar).
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> Did I mention I hate daylight savings time?
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> Dave.
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> Dave Cridland -- Sent with Inky -- http://inky.com/
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