On 26/08/12 02:39, Peter Ekman wrote:
As far as the time the contest should run in the US,
please make it
12:01 am September 1 to 12:01 am October 1 Hawaiian Time, which is
5:01 am Sept 1 to 5:01 am October 1 New York Time. (The :01 is there
because 12:00 is considered to be ambiguous for the date in the US -
all our laws take effect at 12:01!)
12:01 am. Hawaian time does not seem to be the same as 05:01 am New York
Time:
TZ=UTC date --date='TZ="Pacific/Honolulu" 12:01 am September 1'
Sat Sep 1 10:01:00 UTC 2012
TZ=UTC date --date='TZ="America/New_York" 05:01 am September 1'
Sat Sep 1 09:01:00 UTC 2012