Taiwan Time/US Time - Missed Online Workshop

Taiwan Living in Taiwan
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Last night I was booked into to do a call-in workshop. They were in the US I was in Taiwan. I checked out the times online using a World Clock converter and all seemed good - but then, when I logged in, the workshop was over - I’d missed it! :noway:

Here’s the US time as given by the organizers.

September Sat Sep 3 2011 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET - 1 hour 30 minutes

Here’s the Time Conversion result I got with the World Clock Converter:

New York (U.S.A. - New York) Saturday, 3 September 2011, 12:00:00 EDT UTC-4 hours
Taipei (Taiwan) Sunday, 4 September 2011, 00:00:00 CST UTC+8 hours

Can anyone help me out and tell me where I went wrong. I’ll likely be doing one of these workshops on a monthly basis and don’t want to screw it up again.

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You say “last night” which makes me think Sunday night but the time given (00:00:00 Sunday) is actually Saturday night.

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Ha ha. Damn! :doh: Of course, you’re right. I was thrown off by the September 4. :blush: :blush: :blush:

Let’s hope this bit of public shaming is good for my ability going forward to read the World Time Clock :sunglasses:

Thanks cfimages.

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You’re 12 hours ahead of us here in NY until we turn the clocks back in November. I had the same problems all the time with my students who are living in Taiwan. Finally I set up a Web scheduling system that lets everyone choose his own time zone to schedule. It’s helped a lot. World Clock is good but it’s easy to mix up days, even when you get the hour right. You are definitely not alone in having done stuff like that.

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thanks ironlady - that’s good to hear.

What made it even worse was that I’d tanked myself up on coffee to make sure I was fairly sharp - so no giving it all up as a bad day at the office and going to bed. Next time…