OOP: When can it be sold?

[bluesqueak]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "ecaplan_52556" 
<harryp at s...> wrote:
> My local bookseller (Iowa, USA) insists that they cannot sell OOP
> before June 21, 12:01 Central Daylight Savings Time.  But I
> thought that the restriction was no sales before 12:01 British
> Summer Time.  Doubly unfortunate for me, I live in a small
> town and none of the stores will be open past midnight, so I
> need to wait until the next morning to buy, 14-16 hours after
> release!
> 
> If it is BST, then I should be able to buy OOP at June 20, 18:01
> in Iowa, USA... Right?
> 
> *IF* right, then is there an official source for this information
> that I can use to persuade my bookseller?
> 
> Thanks much.

Fraid your bookseller is right. OOP is not legally on sale until 
21st June 2003. In Iowa, 21st June legally arrives later than in 
Britain; so they can't go by BST time but have to wait until 
midnight strikes in local time.

In Australia, on the other hand, it will have been 21st June for 9 
hours by the time midnight BST strikes. So Australians (and other 
countries that side of the date line will be able to buy the book as 
soon as it's released in the UK.

The Australians are also getting a raw deal IMO. They can't buy the 
book until 9 hours after midnight June 21;-)

Pip