- From: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 15:47:44 +0100
- To: Ted Thibodeau Jr <tthibodeau@openlinksw.com>
- Cc: Peter Ferne <petef@jivatechnology.com>, Socialweb XG Public <public-xg-socialweb@w3.org>
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Ted Thibodeau Jr <tthibodeau@openlinksw.com> wrote: > All -- > > On Apr 7, 2010, at 09:27 AM, Peter Ferne wrote: >>> Note we had a bit of a mess last time about the conference call time, >>> note that we are 16:00 GMT (London) and 11:00 EST (Boston). See this >>> time and date: >>> >>> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=04&day=07&year=2010&hour=15&min=00sec=0&p1=0 So I believe that link is still correct, as is the time (11:00 EST Boston, 15:00 UTC, 16:00 London). Note the link was cut and pasted from the official W3C telecon calendar for Zakim [1], which is linked to the agenda always [1]. So the issue at hand is that London time does not equal GMT/UTC. Sorry, I thought London time was GMT, but it's, well, London time I guess :) Hope to see folks at the telecon today! [1] http://www.w3.org/Guide/1998/08/teleconference-calendar.html >> >> >> N.B. GMT = UTC. The link encodes to 15:00 UTC *not* 16:00 UTC. Which is the correct time? >> >> Also the time displayed at that URL varies when I look at it, although only the seconds, and it doesn't automatically take account of daylight saving time, which this one does: >> >> http://permatime.com/UTC/2010-04-07/16:00 >> >> or, if you prefer: >> >> http://permatime.com/EST/2010-04-07/11:00 > > Our meeting times are pegged to Boston-Local time, as that is what > Zakim and the other IRC bots are tied to. Therefor, EST is not an > appropriate label to use as that goes out-of-sync when Daylight > Savings switches in and out. > > The *best* link to use appears to be -- > > http://permatime.com/US/Eastern/2010-04-07/11:00 > > -- which reveals the following matches for today's session -- > > http://permatime.com/GMT/2010-04-07/15:00 > http://permatime.com/UTC/2010-04-07/15:00 > http://permatime.com/Europe/London/2010-04-07/16:00 > > Note that you can easily add your own timezone to the output results, > and I strongly encourage you to add your "local time" rather than > any "Standard" or "Summer" or "Daylight" abbreviated zone! > > >> which displays just the same, i.e. 5pm UK time (BST). > > > Interestingly, permatime.com does not recognize BST... > > > Be seeing (hearing) you, > > Ted > > > > -- > A: Yes. http://www.guckes.net/faq/attribution.html > | Q: Are you sure? > | | A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > | | | Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > > Ted Thibodeau, Jr. // voice +1-781-273-0900 x32 > Evangelism & Support // mailto:tthibodeau@openlinksw.com > // http://twitter.com/TallTed > OpenLink Software, Inc. // http://www.openlinksw.com/ > 10 Burlington Mall Road, Suite 265, Burlington MA 01803 > http://www.openlinksw.com/weblogs/uda/ > OpenLink Blogs http://www.openlinksw.com/weblogs/virtuoso/ > http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/ > Universal Data Access and Virtual Database Technology Providers > > > > >
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