* Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: >On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 09:10:08AM -0400, > IAB Chair <iab-chair@xxxxxxx> wrote > a message of 54 lines which said: > >> The Technical Plenary session is expected to be popular. It will be >> held on Wednesday, 6 Nov 2013 at 0900 PST, > >Why why why using a local timezone when announcing a live broadcast, >which will be seen by many people anywhere in the world? > >Do note also that there are three different timezones in the world >which are named PST. Not everyone lives in North America! > >IETF must use only UTC when announcing a worldwide event. If it was given in a easily and umabiguously machine-readable form like `2013-11-06T05:00Z` we could make our computers recognise it and render it in whatever form we prefer, including offering adding a note in the calendar or whatever people find useful... -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@xxxxxxxxxxxx · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/