Monday 10 November 2008

IBM: Wake the fuck up, OK?

I just got an email inviting me to this event.

Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

What fucking time is that in civilisation, you cunts? Get with the fucking program: there's a whole rest of the planet out there!

4 comments:

Ian Michael Gumby said...

12:00 noon eastern means that it cuts in to your dinner time or just after dinner.

Perhaps it cuts in to your beauty sleep? :-)

Anonymous said...

9am PT is 5pm UK

This doesn't seem particularly unreasonable unless you are literally a 9 till 5 kinda guy

Obnoxio The Clown said...

It's not unreasonable to expect me to make a 5PM call. It's fucking rude to leave the whole world to figure out what 9AM PT is in their neck of the woods.

Unknown said...

The web page in the link doesn't include any time or date information; that is appalling.

I'm not sure how many time zones a message like that should include, nor what the format(s) should be. I suppose that quoting the UTC (Universal Time, Coordinated) value would be reasonable - it would also give the correct local time for the Obnoxious One.