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Re: quick reminder
Francis Fougere 2007-Jun-21 23:02:00
That's great because here in Toronto I'm organizing a sailing event that I
was hoping to do my pano on as well. The main event is tomorrow evening and
this evening is just the skipper's meeting and pre-regatta events which is
what I was going to shoot. But there is no one here. The community will all
be here tomorrow evening.
Francis Fougere
----- Original Message -----
From: "Landis" <#removed#>
To: <#removed#>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: quick reminder
> >On 21/06/2007, at 4:58 PM, Wheaton, Simon wrote:
>>> in Australia, the actual
>>> Solstice is on Friday 22nd June at 4:06am...
>>> 'Time is fixed on Thursday, 21 June 2007 at 18:06:00 UTC time'
>>> 'Canberra Fri 4:06 AM'
>>>
>>> Shouldn't the shooting timeframe allow us to shoot a pano at the time
>>> that the actual Solstice occurs, which in my case it seems can not be
>>> done as the timeframe does not include June 22nd, when the Solstice
>>> actually occurs here?
>>
>>
>>That is a very good point Simon, and I think needs clarification in
>>the "rules". Are the specified times "local" times in which case the
>>dates should have allowed for the capture of the Solstice and
>>extended past it by at least 24 hrs to be safe for ALL time zones, or
>>are they tied to UTC or Berkley ;-) time? In which case we (in Oz)
>>still have our "tomorrow" ... until midnight on the 21st in London /
>>Berkley whichever is the "official" time keeper ...
>>
>>Cheers,
>>KathyW.
>
>
> Kathy and Simon,
>
> We do try to take into account the actual solstice/equinox in the
> individual time zones. We have also tried to take into account the
> weekends among different cultures/countries.
>
> Here I'm used to a Saturday/Sunday weekend. Before the WWP I'd been
> familiar with the Friday/Saturday weekend, but a Thursday/Friday
> weekend was somewhat new to me. We now try to make sure to include
> the closest Thursday-Sunday plus the solstice/equinox for every event
> in every time zone. You'll also notice that although the editing
> dates have a specified end date that most people usually get half-way
> into the next day to keep going - due to time zones. We elect to
> give those in Hawaii the full day which gives those in Australia
> almost one extra day.
>
> As for shooting days and the solstice this year, Carl is right. We
> were originally looking at 21-24 June (Thurs-Sun, including the
> solstice in all time zones) but moved it to include the previous
> weekend when the conference came together and provided a great
> community. Sorry that the time zone thing fooled me when editing the
> dates.
>
> If anyone has any panoramas that fit the theme 'Community' just
> perfect and were taken on the actual solstice day in your time zone -
> or a solstice celebration with a community gathering this weekend,
> I'm sure we would be happy to bend the 'rules' a bit.
>
> -Landis
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