Path to publication in the JJS

[Morgan Pitelka]

Dear PMJS colleagues,

Please join me and coeditor Sabine Frühstück for a discussion of the path to publication in the Journal of Japanese Studies: October 18, 2023    

09:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this webinar:

https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ApoiZQhVQxiULI2GqkbNYQ

[Susan Tsumura]

Thank you for the information. The talk sounds interesting.

However, as someone who is studying how time is named, I would note that the time given,

"October 18, 2023 09:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)"

is ambiguous. You do not say whether "Eastern Time" on Oct. 18 means Eastern Standard Time, or Eastern Daylight Time. Which is it?

I would suggest that anyone announcing an online event specify the time _on that date, not
on the day of the announcement_ using Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time). In the above case, it is either UTC–5 or UTC–4.
Another reason for giving time in UTC is that time zone abbreviations, especially "S" can be confusing. For example, EST is [US] "Eastern Standard Time" UTC–5, but BST is "British Summer Time" UTC+1.

Susan Tsumura

> 2023/10/11 05:15 JST に Morgan Pitelka <morgan....@gmail.com> が次のように書きまし>

[Morgan Pitelka]

Thanks Susan, for your comment. It was not my intention to be unclear.

I know you are a scholar of time, so no doubt you already know that it is in fact not possible for Eastern Standard Time and Eastern Daylight Time to be confused for a given date, because the distinction is determined by season. It is trivially easy today to use an online resource like https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ and plug in a place—such as any city on the East Coast of North America—and a date to verify what the time of an online event would be in your home location (or anywhere else on the globe). 

Again, to clarify, since Daylight Saving Time ends on November 5, and the event I was sharing details about will be held on October 18th, it is not possible that the appropriate time zone could be Eastern Standard Time. 

We are holding this particular event at a rather late time for me, here in Chapel Hill, NC, so that it will be easy to attend for colleagues in East Asia, where it will begin at 10 AM in Tokyo and 9 AM in Hong Kong. Next year we will change the time to a morning meeting (in my time zone) to make it easier to attend for colleagues in Europe. I hope people interested in learning more about how to publish an essay in the Journal of Japanese Studies will register first and then attend this or a future JJS Zoom event. 

Cheers,

Morgan

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