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Re: [802SEC] Proposed Plan / Rules Suspension for March 2021 Plenary



Gents
Please feel free to propose the times

John

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> On Dec 20, 2020, at 5:29 PM, Geoff Thompson <thompson@ieee.org> wrote:
> 
> Roger-
> 
>> On Dec 15, 2020, at 8:11 PMPST, Roger Marks <r.b.marks@ieee.org> wrote:
>> 
>> John,
>> 
>> I have no objections to the schedule.
>> 
>> One minor nuisance is related to the IMAT Daylight Savings Time bug. IMAT has trouble when a session straddles a DST changeover; meetings on one side of the change are one hour off. If we schedule the IMAT session in a US time zone, DST will change on March 14. The meeting schedulers will need to remember to correct for this.
>> 
>> Alternatively, we could schedule the entire session in UTC, which has no DST changeover.
> 
> I would support that.
> It would help if we also embedded a link to:
>    https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=20210314&p2=179&p3=283
> (with appropriate parametric adjustments)
> 
> Geoff
> 
>> 
>> A third option is to divide the session into two IMAT sessions. I think that the "attendance summary" report consolidates results per calendar month, over multiple sessions, so it seems that IMAT could generate attendance reports without a manual merge. We might want to confirm that this would provide all the necessary stats.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Roger
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