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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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