RE: Time Zones (was Re: [ga] Nomination Procedures for the Chair

[R.Gaetano@iaea.org]

William, Andy,

> 
> Andy's suggestion here makes a lot more sense then the 
> current practice
> does.
> 

Indeed.

I obviously agree that DNSO should use UTC (aka GMT), but for the sake of
completeness let me specify that the problem pointed out by Andy:

> >>| >  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.
> >>

originates mainly by the fact that the E-Mail message is a copy of what is
published on the Web at
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/1999.DNSO-GAchair.html.
On this page, the sentence "local time in other places" has a Hyperlink to
http://www.dnso.org/timeworld.html, and in turn to
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/, which provides local times.


Regards
Roberto