Re: settle new telecon

Oops - that would be 11:00 (eastern time).

At 12:44 PM 10/17/2002, Lynne Rosenthal wrote:

>Starting at 10:00 is fine with me.
>
>At 12:09 PM 10/17/2002, Lofton Henderson wrote:
>>At 09:05 AM 10/17/02 -0400, you wrote:
>>>[...]
>>>2. Starting on time - that is no later than 10:05
>>
>>That's sort of on time -- it only wastes about 10% of the hour.
>>
>>>(in case people's clocks are not exact).
>>
>>Really, can't we expect people to be able to know the correct time by 
>>now, if they have an appointment on the hour?  If we build 5 minutes 
>>grace, then people will shoot for 11:05 and actually arrive at 
>>11:09.  Etc...etc...etc...
>>
>>The meeting and roll call should start as soon as the minuter is present, 
>>and that should be 11:00 (okay, maybe 11:01).
>>
>>-Lofton.
>>
>>p.s.  Do you want to circulate the phone number of the NIST atomic clock?
>>
>>p.p.s.  Go to http://www.worldtimeserver.com/atomic-clock/.  You can get 
>>a free client -- "Atomic Clock Sync 2.6" -- to install on your 
>>computer.  It can automatically sync your computer clock with a server 
>>connected to the atomic clock.

Received on Thursday, 17 October 2002 13:00:03 UTC