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Subject:Re: Time From:Stephen Forrest <techwriter -at- IBM -dot- NET> Date:Mon, 8 Sep 1997 15:41:30 GMT
At 09:32 AM 9/8/97 -0500, Miark wrote:
>Is there an intenational standard for communicating time? I'd like to
>include
>our company's business hours in a user guide but I don't know whether to
>say "weekdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Central Standard Time," and leave it at
>that, or to say something more for customers on the other side of the
>globe.
There is a common way of indicating how many time zones you are removed from
GMT. It looks something like (-0500) for the U.S. east coast. I would
indicate business hours in local time and then use this notation so people
could figure out how to calculate that from universal time.
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