Re: Proposed SVG IG Conf Call: Tues May 26th

It's a pain, but iirc even "Eastern" isn't a perfect descriptor. Where I 
am we're using EDT (UTC -4) right now but some places in the Eastern 
time zone don't celebrate daylight savings time so they'd still be on 
EST (UTC-5).

UTC doesn't change with daylight savings time, so the proposed time is 
Tuesday 18:00 UTC. That's 2:00pm EDT. Central Europe is on CEST right 
now (UTC+2) so the local time proposed there is 20:00, in the winter on 
CET (UTC+1) it would be 19:00 but I expect we'll have to change it again 
by then since people's schedules and availability change.

It's a nuisance to convert but stating the time in UTC & a few other 
timezones seems to be the most clear thing we can do.

Oh, and 2:00pm on Tuesdays is fine for me :)

Rob Russell
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http://www.latenightpc.com/blog
519-968-1161



Porter, David A wrote:
> I vote for providing times in human-readable form, i.e. "Eastern" time.
> It's a lot easier to translate into the conditions of wherever you're
> at.  At least for people not that accustomed to UTC math. 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Neumann [mailto:a.neumann@carto.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 10:52 PM
> To: Jeff Schiller
> Cc: SVG IG List
> Subject: Re: Proposed SVG IG Conf Call: Tues May 26th
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> Seems good to me.
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> When discussing times, there is always the question whether we need to
> add daylight savings or not.
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> As an example, in winter time middle europe is UTC+1, but in summer
> time, we are UTC+2.
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> Are you suggesting 19:00 UTC+2 ? (which is UTC+1 in winter?) or would
> this be 20:00?
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> Andreas
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> On Fri, May 22, 2009 3:56 am, Jeff Schiller wrote:
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>> After looking over the schedules, it seems that the following time is 
>> acceptable to most (but not all) people:
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>> Tue 13:00 UTC-5  / Tue 14:00 UTC-4  / Tue 19:00 UTC+1  / Tue 22:00 
>> UTC+4
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>> Please chime in on your opinion of this timeslot as soon as possible.
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>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
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