[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] Meeting reminder

[Caryl Bigenho]

Bert's suggestion is an excellent one. It would eliminate problems with daylight saving time as well.

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> On Oct 6, 2015, at 12:04 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> 
>> On 05.10.2015, at 16:23, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:05 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>>> G'day Walter,
>>> 
>>> It has emerged that 23 UTC is not 6pm Boston.
>>> 
>>> Could meetings be called using only UTC please?  ;-)
>> 
>> If so use:
>> http://google.com/search?q=utc+time
>> 
>> I like Bert Freudenberg prefer to pick 1 real city where many of us Actually Live, whichever one does not matter -- but including that 1 single link (whichever) keeps everyone honest:
>> http://google.com/search?q=nyc+time
>> http://google.com/search?q=lima+time
>> http://google.com/search?q=boston+time
>> http://google.com/search?q=montevideo+time
> 
> I’m pretty sure that as an ombudsperson I should step in only when there is a conflict ;)
> 
> But I’ll say that we have had good experience sending meeting announcements with a link to the time&date web site, showing the desired time as local plus a gazillion other time zones. Here’s what it would have looked like for Boston 6pm:
> 
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=SLOBs+Meeting&iso=20151005T18&p1=43
> 
> At the bottom it even lists the time in UTC for James ;) 
> 
> - Bert -
> 
>>> On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 11:00:29AM -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
>>> > Tomorrow (5 October) is the first Monday of the month. We will have a
>>> > meeting at 23:00 UTC (6PM in Boston; 4PM in Managua; 6PM in
>>> > Port-au-Prince; 7PM in Asuncion; 8PM in Montevideo; 8PM in BA;
>>> > midnight in Paris; 4:30 AM in Dehli; 10AM (+1) in Sydney).
>>> >
>>> > Please join us.
>>> >
>>> > regards.
>>> >
>>> > -walter
>>> > --
>>> > Walter Bender
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>>> --
>>> James Cameron
>>> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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