Richard Stallman Talks About Ubuntu

[Patrick Asselman]

On 2013-08-03 23:27, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 01:12:26PM +0000, Jonesy wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 19:48:42 +0100 (BST), Paul Sladen wrote:
>> > It was begun by somebody on UTC-0700 (West Coast USA) time.
>>
>> What is "UTC-0700 (West Coast USA) time"?
>> I know Californians function on an entirely
>> different planetary perspective, but . . .
>
> Seems an entirely consistent way to describe the current timezone in
> effect on the US west coast, that is, Pacific Daylight Time.  
> Remember
> that UTC remains the same regardless of daylight savings, so the west
> coast is UTC-8 in winter and UTC-7 in summer.
>
> --
> Colin Watson                                       
> [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]

Maybe Jonesy was trying to point out that a time zone is not very 
descriptive to indicate a time.

According to the log itself, the starting time of the event was:
"Meeting started Thu Aug  1 17:00:54 2013 UTC"

So a better way of saying the above would have been:
"It was begun by somebody at 10:00 on UTC-0700 (West Coast USA) time."

Pure speculation from my end, I must admit.

Best regards,
Patrick Asselman