[okfn-discuss] Weekly IRC meet-up

Tue Apr 19 15:47:56 UTC 2011

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> The usual weekly IRC meet-up is this evening at 1700 GMT (1800 UK
> time, 1900 CET, 1300 EST).
>

PLEASE CAN WE GET OUR TIME ZONES RIGHT? CET != CEST. From Wikipedia (which I
believe)

*Central European Time* (*CET*), used in most of
Europe<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe>,
is one of the names of the time
zone<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone>that is 1 hour ahead of
Coordinated
Universal Time <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time>(UTC)/Greenwich
Mean Time <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time>, with a time
offset <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_offset> of
UTC+1<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B1>/GMT+1
(in winter).

Most EU member states have adopted the use of Central European Summer
Time<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_Summer_Time>(CEST)
daylight
saving time <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time> in summer,
with UTC+2 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B2>.
Several of us wasted an hour yesterday on OKCon yesterday because the time
zone was given wrongly.

I think we should only use UTC for OKF meetings :-) So what is actually the
time of the meeting.

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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