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IETF must use only UTC in its announcements (Was: Live Streaming of the IETF 88 Technical Plenary

2013-10-30 03:15:44
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 09:10:08AM -0400,
 IAB Chair <iab-chair(_at_)iab(_dot_)org> 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.