Re: Time Zones (was Re: [ga] Nomination Procedures for the Chair of the General Assembly (GA))

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| From owner-ga@dnso.org Sun Nov 28 01:04 MET 1999
| Mime-Version: 1.0
| Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 18:01:52 -0600
| To: ga@dnso.org
| From: Andy Gardner <andy@navigator.co.nz>
| Subject: Time Zones (was Re: [ga] Nomination Procedures for the Chair of
|  the General Assembly (GA))
| 
| >  1. The nominations period shall take place starting
| >
| >     Friday November 26, 1999 at 18:00 Central European Time (CET) through
| >     Friday December 03, 1999 at 18:00 CET (local time in other places)
| 
| Can we PLEASE PLEASE have all DNSO business conducted in UTC. It is the
| least confusing for members, and avoids any tricky time calculations for
| the majority of members if the DNSO lists ever move to South Australia.
| 
| Regards,
| 
| 
| Andrew P. Gardner
| Support the Cyberspace Association, the constituency of Individual Domain
| Name Owners http://www.idno.org


==> Since the WG-D advice, the DNSO Secretariat always indicate
    "(local time in other places)", with the UTC, a dozen of 
    explicit local time all over the world, as well as an URL 
    of the world clock.

    The current "(local time in other places)" follows.

[ from http://www.dnso.org/timeworld.html ]

ICANN/DNSO

              Local time between November 1 and March 28, 2000

    ------------------------------------------------------------
    Local time between November 1 and March 28, 2000.
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    Reference (Coordinated Universal Time)     UTC         17:00
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    California, USA                            UTC-8+0DST   9:00
    Missouri, USA                              UTC-6+0DST  11:00
    Washington DC, USA                   (EST) UTC-5+0DST  12:00
    Ottawa, Canada                             UTC-5+0DST  12:00
    Santiago, Chile                            UTC-4+1DST  14:00
    Montevideo, Uruguay                        UTC-3+0DST  14:00
    Buenos Aires, Argentina                    UTC-3+0DST  14:00
    Dublin, Ireland                            UTC+0+0DST  17:00
    Brussels, Belgium                    (CET) UTC+1+0DST  18:00
    Barcelona, Spain                     (CET) UTC+1+0DST  18:00
    Madrid, Spain                        (CET) UTC+1+0DST  18:00
    Frankfurt, Germany                   (CET) UTC+1+0DST  18:00
    Paris, France                        (CET) UTC+1+0DST  18:00
    Seoul, Korea                               UTC+9+0DST   2:00 next day
    Tokyo, Japan                               UTC+9+0DST   2:00 next day
    Melbourne, Australia                      UTC+10+1DST   3:00 next day
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    The DST starts/ends on Sunday March 28, 2000, 2:00 or 3:00 local time
    ------------------------------------------------------------