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Steve wrote:
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> > The East Coast US is 5 hours behind London not Greenwich. The
> > west coasit 3 hours behind hte east coast.
> [snip]
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> Greenwich is in London.
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> Steve
London ? Is that somewhere near England ?
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There was similiar dicussion on the IRTC mailing list.
Bill Marrs answered this one completely.
I cite his mail to IRTC-l
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Bill Marrs:
"If we made it midnight (the logical deadline time) GMT, we'd actually
be shaving off 7 or 8 hours from the time, and that's bad.
I wish there was a way I could express to everyone that the "deadline"
is not so strict. What actually happens is, the morning after the
deadline, I get up, get some breakfast, read my email, and then think
"oh! it's
time to wrap up another IRTC round!", then I work on cleaning up broken
submissions and general end of round house cleaning.
This is actually well after the actual deadline occurs, and even then
if an artist is struggling to get something in (and tell me), I'll
usually
work with them (even bend over backwards to get their submission in
somehow,
someway). By noon my time (US Eastern Time) I will generally stop
waiting and close the round. Chip makes the zip files and then I start
the
mirrors.
Sometimes one of us isn't around (I was skiing last round), and there
can be an additional delay, but most of the time that's how it goes."
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I hope this makes it all clear.
Marc
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Marc Schimmler wrote:
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> There was similiar dicussion on the IRTC mailing list.
> Bill Marrs answered this one completely.
>
> I cite his mail to IRTC-l
<stuff>
> I hope this makes it all clear.
>
> Marc
Clear as invisible here.
One question concerning the aforementioned mailing list. Is there much
traffic on the list or is it intentionaly quite except for the times when
announcements are necessary. I have three lists I'm on now and am going to
be unsubscribing to one of them soon just to cut down the amount of mail
I have to keep up with. On the other hand this is one list I am interested
in but don't want to have the same problem I am currently working to
eliminate. So how about it. What is the traffic on the list like at the
present time ?
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Ken wrote:
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>
> One question concerning the aforementioned mailing list. Is there much
> traffic on the list or is it intentionaly quite except for the times when
> announcements are necessary. I have three lists I'm on now and am going to
> be unsubscribing to one of them soon just to cut down the amount of mail
> I have to keep up with. On the other hand this is one list I am interested
> in but don't want to have the same problem I am currently working to
> eliminate. So how about it. What is the traffic on the list like at the
> present time ?
>
I subscribed to it but after the second time that they lost me in their
list I didn't return to it. The reason for that is that I've seen too
much noise there. The problem is that if you read most of the povray
news and cgrr and a mailing list this could become an overkill. I
decided from my personal point of view that the ratio of mail important
for me to the mail unimportant for me is too low (I hope I haven't hurt
anybody with this statement, it's just my personal opinion and your may
vary in any amount).
Regarding the traffic .. there were times when the traffic was quit high
10 or more mail in one day and then periods when not even one appeared
on my screen.
Marc
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I've been in Greenwich, AND I DIDN'T SEE THE MERIDIAN !!
there was a plate that said it was there, but no line
anywhere ! Big deception ;-)
Fabien.
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Marc Schimmler wrote:
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> I subscribed to it but after the second time that they lost me in their
> list I didn't return to it. The reason for that is that I've seen too
> much noise there. The problem is that if you read most of the povray
> news and cgrr and a mailing list this could become an overkill. I
> decided from my personal point of view that the ratio of mail important
> for me to the mail unimportant for me is too low (I hope I haven't hurt
> anybody with this statement, it's just my personal opinion and your may
> vary in any amount).
>
> Regarding the traffic .. there were times when the traffic was quit high
> 10 or more mail in one day and then periods when not even one appeared
> on my screen.
>
> Marc
> --
> Marc Schimmler
I recieved the following reply by email concerning the lists:
Subject: IRTC Mailing Lists
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 15:22:20 +0200
I don't have write access to the newsgroups, so I send this directly
to you. You may post it on the newsgroup if you want.
There are two IRTC mailing lists.
IRTC-l is a generic list. There can be a lot of traffic there (up to ten
messages a day...) Lots of info, lots of chatting.
IRTC-announce is a read-only list, used by the admins to give info about
deadlins and new topics. It is a VERY LOW TRAFFIC list (something like
two messages a... month) This one is a must.
There's in fact a third list, IRTC-admins, but as its name says, it's
admins-only.
See http://www.irtc.org/mlists.html for more info.
Hope this helps.
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Il suivait son idie.
C'itait une idie fixe, Adrien BEAU - 1B
et il itait surpris de ne pas avancer. bea### [at] esme fr
Jacques Privert
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Thank you Jacques. It does help to understand the different lists and
their purpose.
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Fabien Mosen <101### [at] compuservecom> wrote in message
news:372AA149.EE6F746F@compuserve.com...
> I've been in Greenwich, AND I DIDN'T SEE THE MERIDIAN !!
> there was a plate that said it was there, but no line
> anywhere ! Big deception ;-)
>
I've never been myself, but isn't there a plaque/plate that has the
meridian line on it ?
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Software Engineer (and all round nice guy)
Author of Pandora's Box : Watch this space.
Work homepage : http://www.cyberlife.co.uk
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Scott Hill wrote:
> I've never been myself, but isn't there a plaque/plate that has the
> meridian line on it ?
I can verify that at least from having seen a discovery channel special
on time keeping where there center of all earth time was located at.
I suppose that center is not a good choice of words as it is both the
beginning and the end of all earth time.
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Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
news:3745CEEF.31E5A7E4@pacbell.net...
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>
> Scott Hill wrote:
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>
> > I've never been myself, but isn't there a plaque/plate that has the
> > meridian line on it ?
>
>
> I can verify that at least from having seen a discovery channel special
> on time keeping where there center of all earth time was located at.
> I suppose that center is not a good choice of words as it is both the
> beginning and the end of all earth time.
>
No, it's the middle - think about it - earth's time zone's go from
GMT-12.00 to GMT+12.00, so GMT is at the _middle_ of the scale. Somewhere on
the opposite side of the planet (around about Eniwetok, Kwajalein, Auckland,
Wellington, Fiji, Kamchatka or the Marshal Is, according to my Win98
timezone selector) is at the beginning/end of earth time.
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Scott Hill : sco### [at] cyberlifecouk
Software Engineer (and all round nice guy)
Author of Pandora's Box : Watch this space.
Work homepage : http://www.cyberlife.co.uk
"We will decide what the news is. The news is what we tell you it is." - The
Fox TV network.
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Steve wrote:
> Surely when running an internet based competition it's best to go
> by GMT anyway.
If this subject isn't completely dead it was answered on the
mailing list. The man responsible for collecting entries said to
the effect he wakes up, has coffee and then checks so see how
many late entries he can legitimately include in the competition.
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