On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, t.p. wrote:
Can anyone help an ignorant European? Given a meeting time of 12:00
Noon ET [sic] on Sunday 10th March 2013, what is that in UTC? Daylight
saving will have started by then in the USA but not in Europe so the
scope for being an hour late or an hour early is much increased.
$ date -u -d "CET 12:00 Mar 10 2013"
Sun Mar 10 11:00:00 UTC 2013
$ date -u -d "EST 12:00 Mar 10 2013"
Sun Mar 10 17:00:00 UTC 2013
$ date -u -d "PST 12:00 Mar 10 2013"
Sun Mar 10 20:00:00 UTC 2013
Though, the daylight savings is a bit confusing:
$ date -u -d "CEST 12:00 Mar 10 2013"
Sun Mar 10 10:00:00 UTC 2013
$ date -u -d "EDT 12:00 Mar 10 2013"
Sun Mar 10 16:00:00 UTC 2013
$ date -u -d "PDT 12:00 Mar 10 2013"
Sun Mar 10 19:00:00 UTC 2013
So I guess one still has to keep track of daylight savings. Personally I
prefer to have local time for meetings, otherwise UTC is nice.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike(_at_)swm(_dot_)pp(_dot_)se