establishing a timezone for FDP

[Karsten Wade]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 13:02 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 11:49 -0500, Patrick Barnes wrote:
> [..snip...]
> > ... Let's stick to global standards as much as possible.
> > 
> > The same applies to other regional considerations.  ISO dates
> > (YYYY-MM-DD), common currencies (U.S.D. & Euro), metric measurements,
> > etc. should be preferred.  We adhere to standards in our software, why
> > not our communications?
> 
> Concur here.

I have seen the error of my provincial thinking.

Henceforth, we are adhering to all such standards, including the metric
system.[1]

The FDP timezone is UTC.

The default FDP deadline is 23:59 UTC on the day specified.  This is
done to make the timing unambiguous.

Thanks - Karsten
[1] GIYF -- http://www.google.com/search?q=98.6+F+in+C

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