[time-nuts] Re: Fwd: FW: Memorial service for David Mills

[Dave Hart]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 at 14:16, <tme at asteroidinitiatives.com> wrote:

> On 2024-03-07 04:10, Dave Hart via time-nuts wrote:
> > [...] this coming Monday at 3:00pm local time.  With Sunday's leap
> > ahead in local time, that's 17:00 UTC, Noon US Pacific time.
>
> Thank you for this notice. However, if this is 3:00 PM (1500) EDT that's
> 1900 UTC.
>
> Is that interpretation correct?
>

Yes, thanks for the correction.  I clearly shouldn't do time math in public.

To further confuse matters, I took the option in Gmail's triple-dot "more"
composition menu to "Set up a time to meet" hoping it would include a
useful calendar attachment or at least a link to include the event in a
recipient's Google Calendar.  As received by another account of mine, it
was neither, and the text had the wrong time (13:00 UTC) despite having the
correct time in my Google Calendar, which is set to show both UTC and
Eastern time.  Local time can be tricky, and I'm glad NTP generally shrugs
and leaves that problem to others.