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Re: Time Zones (was Re: [ga] Nomination Procedures for the Chairof the General Assembly (GA))
>| 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.
>
>==> 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.
What? Where is the UTC time listed in your original post?
All I can see is the CET, with "(local time in other places)" behind it,
which is meaningless.
Why are you listing CET times instead of UTC?
> 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
> ------------------------------------------------------------
Gee, that's an exhaustive list! NOT!
Just stick with world standards and list everything in UTC, PLEASE!
Regards,
Andrew P. Gardner
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