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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
> Support the Cyberspace Association, the constituency of Individual
> Domain
> Name Owners http://www.idno.org

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