Re: [vmeet] Apr 23: webex group experiment

Dave CROCKER <dhc@dcrocker.net> Fri, 17 April 2009 22:27 UTC

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Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
> I realised we're all using this message's subject line, whilst Friday 
> will be the 24th of April.

That's why I had to quickly sent out:

Subject: Oops -- Re: [vmeet] Apr 23^H^H24  webex group experiment
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:09:19 -0400
From: Dave CROCKER <dhc@dcrocker.net>
To: dcrocker@bbiw.net
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...
Very sorry.  I did mean Friday and therefore meant *24* April (not 23).


> Also - time-wise, we're also going to have to tighten this:
> 
> Dave writes:
> 
>> We're going to conduct a real-world experiment, using webex, on 
>> Friday, 23 April, at 7am, Pacific Daylight Time.
>>
>> It will be for 2 hours, with a real agenda, and attempting to get real 
>> work done.
>>
>> Time conversions:
>>
>>     7apm    PDT
>>
>>    10am     EDT
>>
>>     2pm     UTC
>>
>>     3pm     Amsterdam
> 
> Nope. :-)  Europe's now on Summer Time. You are quoting CET which only 
> works in the winter.
> London's at BST = UTC+1
> Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt, etc. are on CEST = UTC+2

The US Pacific time is the anchor.  That means that the other US times are 
correct and I believe the UTC is correct also.  And it's why I cited UTC rather 
than UK, GB or somesuch.  However I wasn't sure about daylight savings for 
Europe. Thanks for catching this.

d/
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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
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