Re: [Fwd: US clocks move to Summer Time Sunday, 8 March]

Ivan Herman wrote:
> The bi-annual mess created by diverging views on the two sides of the
> pond on when summer time begins shall commence next week (see details
> below). So the timing of our telcos are still o.k. this week, but it
> will go made starting next week for three weeks. Nothing we can do about

s/made/mad/ :-)

> that, just try to survive the mess...
> 
> Ivan
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: US clocks move to Summer Time Sunday, 8 March
> Resent-Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:14:32 +0000
> Resent-From: chairs@w3.org
> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:13:59 -0500
> From: Ralph R. Swick <swick@w3.org>
> To: chairs@w3.org
> CC: adminreq@w3.org
> 
> Semi-annual reminder of the start of Daylight Savings Time -- aka
> Summer Time -- coming next week to the US.
> 
> Most of the US will be moving its clocks forward this year on March 8
> (one week from yesterday).  This is 3 weeks earlier than Europe.
> 
> Most Zakim teleconference times are based on the US clocks.
> Therefore, unless groups have sent specific requests to base
> their teleconference times on some other timezone or to change
> your teleconference times this month, most folk outside the US
> will need to join teleconferences 1 hour earlier between 8 March
> and 29 March.
> 
> After 29 March most teleconferences will be back on the same
> relative local time for Europe.
> 
> The [1]teleconference calender is the authoritative source for
> the Zakim schedule -- this page is generated from the same
> database that nightly downloads into the hardware.
> 
> The calendar shows UTC times for each day of each teleconference
> in the dated (monthly calendar) section.  The UTC times are all linked
> to a service that will give you the corresponding local times for major
> cities around the world *for that particular date*.  In the conference
> details section of the calendar, both the Boston local time and the
> UTC time are shown *for the next occurrence* of each teleconference.
> 
> If you are unsure about the scheduled time of any teleconference,
> check the UTC link above the teleconference name on the specific
> date of that teleconference; e.g. [2].
> 
> If you require any changes to individual teleconference times, please
> be sure to give adminreq sufficient notice [3].
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/Guide/1998/08/teleconference-calendar
> [2] http://www.w3.org/Guide/1998/08/teleconference-calendar#D20080309
> [3] http://www.w3.org/Guide/1998/08/TeleconferenceHowTo.htm
> 
> 
> 

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