Change to U.T.C. based release times

Naheem Zaffar naheemzaffar at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 19:50:20 UTC 2007


Maybe also add GMT to the announcements to make it easier for the rest
of the world to calculate the time?

On 02/06/07, Benjamin Lewis <ben.lewis at benl.co.uk> wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Saturday 02 June 2007 15:26:37 Benjamin Lewis wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all.
> >>
> >> A small-ish proposal, but one which would affect everyone - I propose
> >> moving from a release time based on Eastern time, and hence affected by
> >> D.S.T., to one based on U.T.C. - to this end I propose changing to 13:00
> >> UTC - which is 10:00 EST and 11:00 EDT (those times may well be wrong,
> >> but you get the idea! :)). My rationale for this is that it can get just
> >> a little confusing trying to tell people the time of a release when its
> >> been thrown by an hour due to D.S.T.
> >>
> >> All thoughts (and corrections to the numbers, most probably) welcome.
> >>
> >
> > Everywhere that I listed the release time I thought I listed the UTC time as
> > well.  Did I miss somewhere?
> >
> It is the fact that, due to D.S.T., there are _two_ U.T.C. times that
> bothers me, hence imho we should move to an U.T.C. based time.
> And no, I don't think you missed any.
>
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