<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On 05.10.2015, at 16:23, Adam Holt <<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" class="">holt@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:05 PM, James Cameron <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank" class="">quozl@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">G'day Walter,<br class="">
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It has emerged that 23 UTC is not 6pm Boston.<br class="">
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Could meetings be called using only UTC please?  ;-)<span class=""><br class=""></span></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If so use:<br class=""><a href="http://google.com/search?q=utc+time" class="">http://google.com/search?q=utc+time</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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:<br class=""><a href="http://google.com/search?q=nyc+time" class="">http://google.com/search?q=nyc+time</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://google.com/search?q=lima+time" class="">http://google.com/search?q=lima+time</a><br class=""><a href="http://google.com/search?q=boston+time" class="">http://google.com/search?q=boston+time</a><br class=""><a href="http://google.com/search?q=montevideo+time" class="">http://google.com/search?q=montevideo+time</a></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I’m pretty sure that as an ombudsperson I should step in only when there is a conflict ;)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>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:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=SLOBs+Meeting&iso=20151005T18&p1=43" class="">http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=SLOBs+Meeting&iso=20151005T18&p1=43</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>At the bottom it even lists the time in UTC for James ;) </div><div><br class=""></div>- Bert -</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 11:00:29AM -0400, Walter Bender wrote:<br class="">
> Tomorrow (5 October) is the first Monday of the month. We will have a<br class="">
> meeting at 23:00 UTC (6PM in Boston; 4PM in Managua; 6PM in<br class="">
> Port-au-Prince; 7PM in Asuncion; 8PM in Montevideo; 8PM in BA;<br class="">
> midnight in Paris; 4:30 AM in Dehli; 10AM (+1) in Sydney).<br class="">
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> Please join us.<br class="">
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> regards.<br class="">
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> -walter<br class="">
> --<br class="">
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