John Summerfield wrote:

Time.......... 9:00 - 10:00am PDT



THis will confuse most people outside the US. Please, times and dates in UTC, or for the older, GMT.


You don't give your fellow non-Americans nearly enough credit.

Heck, even us dumb Americans understand some time zones outside our own
country. If Barton had given the time as BST or CET, I would have
thought it odd, but I would have been able to do the math and get it
right. And if we parochial, narcissistic Americans can understand a
commonly used non-USA time zone, I wouldn't surprise me at all if many
of our smarter neighbors around the world make the corresponding
translation in a flash, almost without realizing it.

I'm pretty sure Barton isn't going to say to himself, "Gee, it's twenty
minutes until 1600 UTC; must be time to get ready for the webinar!"
Leave measurements in their native units, and let those who have to
translate to another frame of reference take that responsibility.

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