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[Clive D.W. Feather]

Ade Lovett said:
>> Assuming that you're writing in a US locale and that "CST" is meant to be
>> "-0700", then why am I forbidden to reply before 11 o'clock this evening ?
> 
> CST is defined as US Central Standard time in more places than I care to
> recall, being GMT-0600 (not, as previously stated, -0700).

6, 7, what's the difference ?

The points, which you seem to have missed, are:

(1) not everybody in the world intuitively knows what "CST" (or "IST", for
that matter) means, let alone "12/11/2001";

(2) what on earth is the point in sending out a questionnaire that *MUST
NOT* be answered for some time ?

Then, combine them into "answers will be ignored if sent before a time on a
day which take some effort to calculate if you're not in the USA" and it
becomes annoying.

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