Re: [Fwd: US clocks move to Summer Time in 2 weeks.]

Thanks for this issue Guus,

See (listed) You in a few hours.

Cheers,

Simone

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Guus Schreiber <schreiber@cs.vu.nl> wrote:
>
>  DST changes will lead this spring to a longer period (3 weeks) than usual of time discrepancies between US and Europe. For most Europeans the SWD telecons  of 11, 18 and 25 March will be one hour earlier.
>
>  FYI,
>  Guus
>
>
>  -------- Original Message --------
>  Subject: US clocks move to Summer Time in 2 weeks.
>  Resent-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:15:42 +0000
>  Resent-From: chairs@w3.org
>  Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:14:24 -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 soon to the US.
>
>  Most of the US will be moving its clocks forward this year on March 9
>  (two weeks 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 next month, Europeans will need to
>  join teleconferences 1 hour earlier between 9 March and 30 March.
>
>  After 30 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#D20080310
>  [3] http://www.w3.org/Guide/1998/08/TeleconferenceHowTo.htm
>
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Received on Tuesday, 26 February 2008 09:47:35 UTC