On Wednesday, March 05, 2008, at 11:30PM, "Alan Anderson" <aranders@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Mar 5, 2008, at 4:13 PM, Christopher Hickman wrote: > >>> Tenatively, I'm saying submission deadline for entrants will be >>> the first >>> day of summer, Friday, June 20th >> >> Um, just to be pedantic, that is the last day of Spring. Summer >> starts on June 21st. ;) > >Dale has it right for North Americans: the 2008 Summer Solstice >occurs about 8pm EST on June 20th. That is a bit past midnight June >21 UTC, so Topher's pedantry is somewhat justified. Yeah, when considering global events, UTC is the way to go. ;) Oh, and also, just to be pedantic, by nature pedantry is a black-and-white art. It's either justified or wrong, nothing in-between. ;)