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Just a quick note that Mads, Luke and I are going to be on Channel 9 Live from TechEd  this afternoon talking about C#, F# and whatever else strikes our fancy. It's live video; anything can happen. Tune in to www.msteched.com; we're scheduled to be on at 3:30 PM Central Daylight Time. (There has been some confusion on this point; I note that Central Daylight Time is a time zone that is not Eastern, Mountain or Pacific time.)

Check it out; there is already a tonne of great video there.

UPDATE: The video is archived here:

https://channel9.msdn.com/Live/TechEd2010/NA/Day2/

Fast forward to 4 hours 25 minutes in.

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  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2010
    Does "Central Daylight Time" even count as a time zone? It's sort of half a time zone. I've never got to grips with the terminology around this... I think of "Europe/London" as a time zone, which spends half the time in GMT and half the time in BST. If anyone knows of the proper terminology for this, I'd be interested to know it for the sake of Noda Time documentation. Bah, we should all just be on UTC.

  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2010
    For those not from the US: 15:30 CDT is 20:30 UTC.

  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2010
    I agree with Jon. We should all use UTC. Saves us a whole lot of troubles.

  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2010
    Jon, If we are all ON UTC, it defeats the purpose of time zones. If I have to be at work at 0800 UTC I'm getting up in the middle of the night. That would really mess up everyone's body clocks. Steven, USING UTC in communications is fine. Everyone would become experts at converting their local time To/From UTC. DST makes everything more difficult for things that are triggered by times tied to dates.  

  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2010
    Yes, it would defeat the purpose of time zones - it would eliminate time zones. Why would you have to be at work at 0800 UTC? You'd go to work at 1200 UTC or something like that. Admittedly "today" and "tomorrow" become awkward. But yes, as noted elsewhere: just getting rid of DST and communicating in UTC would help a lot. So, 3 more hours before Eric's video... just how far off topic do you think we can get? ;)

  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2010
    @Antony: Doh - how embarrassing. I'm so used to living in UTC for half the year that I forgot to adjust Svick's time to BST.

  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2010
    @carlos: Indeed. Most of Europe is CEST at the moment (see the map at en.wikipedia.org/.../Time_zones_of_Europe), and otherwise CET.

  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2010
    @Bob "If I have to be at work at 0800 UTC I'm getting up in the middle of the night. That would really mess up everyone's body clocks." That sounds a lot like one of the usual arguments for Daylight Saving Time.  Why don't people realize that it's a lot easier to change your standard working hours than it is to change all the clocks and deal with the problems that time zone (and especially DST) differences cause? As for international online events like a video streaming live from TechEd, they should always be given in UTC and optionally also in the local time of the event.

  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    June 09, 2010
    Eric, you need to get back here - we're already discussing time zones! :)

  • Anonymous
    June 09, 2010
    I missed it -- does anybody have a link to a recording?

  • Anonymous
    June 09, 2010
    Found it here: channel9.msdn.com/.../Day2 Starting at the 4 h 25 min mark.