From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Tue Apr 09 15:16:16 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_1); 9 Apr 2002 22:16:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 34916 invoked from network); 9 Apr 2002 22:16:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 9 Apr 2002 22:16:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 Apr 2002 22:15:59 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id g39MFx721444 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 16:15:59 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 16:15:58 -0600 (MDT) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] IRC Discussion (Which I'd like comments on) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE From: Jay Kominek X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=20706630 X-Yahoo-Profile: jfkominek On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Ted Reed wrote: > > So, since I havn't noticed many of the new people on the IRC channel us= ing > > abstractions (quite as much as they probably should be), how about maki= ng > > this Saturday abstraction day? (Chapter 11 of the refgram.) Maybe we ca= n > > aim most of the activity for the mid to late evening in UTC? > > 8PM in UTC is what in Pacific Time (+8), Noon or 4AM? If It's 4AM like I > think, perhaps Noon UTC would be best. That way you could get Europe and > America in there without anyone having to be up too late or too early. GNU date is your friend: miranda% TZ=3DUS/Mountain date -d "Sat Apr 13 20:00:00 UTC 2002" Sat Apr 13 14:00:00 MDT 2002 miranda% TZ=3DUS/Pacific date -d "Sat Apr 13 20:00:00 UTC 2002" Sat Apr 13 13:00:00 PDT 2002 miranda% TZ=3DUS/Eastern date -d "Sat Apr 13 20:00:00 UTC 2002" Sat Apr 13 16:00:00 EDT 2002 It ought to be a reasonable time for almost everone except Russia and East Asia. (And Australia) - Jay Kominek Plus =C3=A7a change, plus c'est la m=C3=AAme chose