Re: The IF Gates are Closed. Let the voting Begin!!


10 Sep 1995 08:41:33 GMT

In article <42huvj$93e@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Gerry Kevin Wilson <whizzard@uclink.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>In article <42ha0c$l7u@nic.lth.se>, Magnus Olsson <mol@marvin.df.lth.se> wrote:
>>
>>When you're writing about "midnight", which time zone are you referring to?
>>Remember that this is a very international contest...
>
>Pacific Time Zone. ie, California.

Which means 8 a.m. GMT and 9 a.m. CET, if I remember the figures right.

>>And should the votes be emailed before midnight, or received by you by
>>midnight? Email isn't quite instantaneous.
>
>Received by midnight. I can't imagine anyone having trouble over this.

Perhaps I was being a bit too pedantic here :-). *But* people with
unreliable mailfeeds, or UUCP connections that only transfer mail at 2
a.m., and so on, should perhaps keep that in mind.

Magnus