On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 15:59, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > > > On 5/13/19 10:03 AM, sebb wrote: > > On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 14:48, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> On 5/13/19 8:34 AM, Suresh Kumar Anaparti wrote: > >>> Hi ApacheCon team, > >>> > >>> CFP link to submit proposal is disabled before the deadline. Please check. > >> > >> No. It wasn't. This is a matter of timezone differences. > > > > I've not seen how the deadline time was expressed, but it sounds like > > it may have been expressed using a local time-zone. > > If so, may I suggest that future deadlines are expressed as UTC? > > Possibly also a weblink that automatically displays the local time. > > > Well, sure, ok, but it doesn't matter. No matter when we close the CFP, > no matter what timezone we have expressed it in, no matter what grace > period we provide, there are people who attempt to submit after it > closes. I am convinced that the only actual solution is to advertise one > close date/time, and then actually close it 24 hours after that. Except > then then people come to expect that, and you're back at the beginning. > > And, FWIW, CFP end time was expressed in the local time of the browser > viewing it, specifically so there could be no confusion. Yet here we are. :)
However the browser TZ may not have been set correctly. Whereas if the time is expressed in UTC, it is unambiguous. BTW, what was the deadline in UTC? > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com > http://rcbowen.com/ > @rbowen
