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Re: Time Zones (was Re: [ga] Nomination Procedures for the Chair
Andy's suggestion here makes a lot more sense then the current practice
does.
On 28-Nov-99 Andy Gardner wrote:
>>| 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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