[Open-bio-l] [Bioperl-l] Fwd: [Utilities-announce] NCBI Revised E-utility Usage Policy

[Peter]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> If we assume the user has their timezone information setup right, it should
> also be possible to count the number of requests made within the hours of
> 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time and issue a warning or raise an error if over 100.
> Currently Biopython leaves this to the user.
>
> Interestingly the older guideline text here gives the 100 limit,
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/eutils_help.html#UserSystemRequirements
> but the new text does not:
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=helpeutils&part=chapter2#chapter2.Usage_Guidelines_and_Requiremen

Eastern Time (EST) is 5 hours behind of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
aka Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), thus 09:00 to 17:00 EST is 14:00 to 22:00
UTC. I notice the NCBI do not appear to mention summer/winter time
(daylight saving time), which may be an oversight.

Peter