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

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Wed, 30 October 2013 15:36 UTC

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From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
Subject: Re: IETF must use only UTC in its announcements (Was: Live Streaming of the IETF 88 Technical Plenary
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 16:36:32 +0100
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* 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.

If it was given in a easily and umabiguously machine-readable form like 
`2013-11-06T05:00Z` we could make our computers recognise it and render
it in whatever form we prefer, including offering adding a note in the
calendar or whatever people find useful...
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