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"Dearlove, Christopher (UK)" <Chris.Dearlove@baesystems.com> Wed, 30 October 2013 17:31 UTC

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To: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>, Scott Brim <scott.brim@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: IETF must use only UTC in its announcements (Was: Live Streaming of the IETF 88 Technical Plenary
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UK and GB is a bit redundant (GB is part of - most of - the UK). Basically we run GMT (UTC+0) in winter and BST (UTC+1) in summer. The S is summer. [We did once run an experiment to run BST - the S now standing for standard - all year, but a long time ago, and not for long.]

[If - I don't know for sure either way - there's a subtle difference between GMT and UTC, for meeting start times, it's irrelevant.)

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From: ietf-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of joel jaeggli
Sent: 30 October 2013 16:54
To: Scott Brim
Cc: ned+ietf; Carsten Bormann; IETF Discuss
Subject: Re: IETF must use only UTC in its announcements (Was: Live Streaming of the IETF 88 Technical Plenary


On Oct 30, 2013, at 7:24 AM, Scott Brim <scott.brim@gmail.com> wrote:

> One aspect of the problem is calendar apps.  Some rather popular ones don't have a way to enter UTC, only UK time eg. BST, so you need some local time somewhere to enter the event in your calendar.

And the United Kingdom and Great Britian are not on BST all year. Ghana on the other hand is.
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