[asac] changing telecon time

[Susanne Aalto]

Dear Christine,

OK by me --- not too keen on it, but it should be ok
to call from home. Making you call from Hawaii at 5am does
sound less reasonable than us Europeans calling at 21 UT.

Best regards
Susanne


Christine Wilson wrote:

>Hi, everyone,
>
>I am proposing that we change the time of our telecon to 2100 UT.  
>
>This change would start with our November telecon and continue at least
>through March 2006.
>
>If you have big difficulties with this new time, please let me know as 
>soon as possible. Please explain what your difficulty is, so I can judge 
>among (possibly competing) constraints and let me know if a small shift 
>(by 30 minutes or 1 hour) would solve your difficulty.
>
>The main reason to change the time is that I will be chairing the meetings 
>and it is hard for me to be an awake and active chair at 5 am Hawaii time. 
>In addition, our Japanese colleagues have been dealing with very late 
>telecon times (11:30 pm or midnight) for many years, and this will give 
>them a little break from that.
>
>Thanks,
>Chris
>
>P.S. By my calculations, here is 2100 UT in various local times (all for 
>non daylight savings). But please check yourself for your own time zone.
>
>10 pm Europe
>9 pm UK
>4 pm U.S. east coast
>1 pm U.S. west coast
>11 am Hawaii
>6 am Japan
>
>For comparison, our current telecon time of 1500 UT is
>
>4 pm Europe
>3 pm UK
>10 am U.S. east coast
>7 am U.S. west coast
>5 am Hawaii
>midnight Japan
>
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