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

Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live555.com> Wed, 30 October 2013 08:28 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: Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live555.com>
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>> 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.

I would prefer SHOULD rather than MUST (or must) :-)

But anyway, FYI, 0900 PST (Canada/US Pacific Standard Time) == 1700 UTC.

	Ross.

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