> > In future, could people recognise that not everyone understands US > > times, and translate times to GMT (UTC). Probably we can all translate > > GMT to our local times. > > What, you don't have one of those handy dandy timezone changers on your > desktop toolbar? Heck, even Windows has that. I use mine all the time to > figure out what the time is in other parts of the world. Or you could use > the world clock, or....
In John's defense, it is a bit annoying that people in the US tend to assume that the US is the center of the known universe (thank goodness it's not). Since he's in Australia, that 16 hour time difference is Not Fun At All for non-US attendees to US events, particularly for those in Asia. Trying to schedule conference calls with people in Japan and China is a major PITA. A possible solution would be to add a ICS (Internet Calendar Service) meeting notice to the posting (would require some work on the mailing list server to permit .ICS files to pass the attachment filter). Times and dates in ICS notices are in ISOdate format with times in UTC, and Notes (finally!) can generate and understand them properly, as does Outlook/Exchange and the other similar widgets. Then the meeting schedule would appear in the proper local time. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
