[nmglug] *6PM confirmed* Fwd: Richard Stallman to speak in Socorro - October 31st, 2014

[s at mnoble.net]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 06:40:34PM -0600, Arlo Barnes wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Sam Noble <s at mnoble.net> wrote:
> 
> > Show it as being at 6pm, so that's probably correct, but the .ics and
> > .vcal files FSF is serving up have:
> > DTSTART:20141031T220000Z
> > DTEND:20141031T230000Z
> >
> > Which my owncloud etc translate to 4pm.
> 
> Although ISO 8601 is rather ugly, it is human-readable: we see the date in
> the standard most-significant-first order, without any demarcating
> characters (being zero-padded, each of the eight digits can never be
> confused with another), then we see the time in Universal Time Coordinate,

Thank you LazyWeb! ;)

Yay owncloud/replicant calendar they got it right.

But as Arlo knows, we now have confirmation from Jesse Crawford, that
the calendar files are incorrect. And that the talk will be at 6pm (MDT
UTC -6 :) DTSTART:20141101T000000Z  maybe? (never trust /me's
arithmetic especially at a unit boundary OBO FTW):


On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 08:46:50PM -0600, Jesse B. Crawford wrote:
> Hello,
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> I'm coordinating Richard Stallman's talk at NMT. I wanted to let you
> know that I can confirm the time will be 6:00, the calendar exports are
> incorrect. Thanks for contacting Jeane about this, I'm sure she'll fix
> it when she gets a chance. Could you do me a favor and let the list know?
> 
> We look forward to seeing some of you. Please let me know if you have
> any questions.
> 
> Thanks!
> jc
> 
> -- 
> Jesse B. Crawford
> Student, Information Technology
> New Mexico Inst. of Mining & Technology
> 
> https://jbcrawford.us // jesse at jbcrawford.us
> https://cs.nmt.edu/~jcrawford // jcrawford at cs.nmt.edu

-- 
sam