On 05/19/2018 02:45 PM, speck for Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Sat, 19 May 2018, speck for Borislav Petkov wrote:
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>> Says here: "May 21st 2100 UTC".
> 
> What an odd time. It's noon in the Aleutian Islands and absolutely nowhere 
> else that I can find.
> 
> I guess it's "after trading closes", but that would be 4pm eastern. And 
> 2100 UTC is 5pm EDT, so it's _really_ after.
> 
> So I wonder why that particular choice. 
> 
> Whatever. It's 2pm for me. I guess it's 11pm for Greg in Paris.
> 
> Are we sure that's not a typo, and it's supposed to be noon UTC, 
> transposing the two digits?

It's 2pm PDT because Intel asked GPZ if "21st" could mean "the afternoon
of the 21st" in order to allow various CERT briefings and the like. It
was apparently deemed reasonable by the Google powers that be.

Jon.

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