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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

This site was established when I was moving a lot (a work rotation program). During the rotations, the blog was a means of keeping my friends and family up to date as to where I was and what I was doing. Now, I have settled in Davis and all the references to "current location" and "next location" and such are meaningless, except as historical side notes. So, I pulled the references to Time Off-sets and Enchange rates from the front page of this site and moved them here. This whole page is now pretty much obsolete, but it costs nothing to leave it up rather than delete it. So, here is the outdated Travel Details information:

Time Off-sets

Here are the time offsets from universal standard time:
California, USA = UST - 8 hrs
North Carolina, USA = UST - 5 hrs
England = UST + 0 hrs
Denmark = UST + 1 hrs
China = + 8 hrs
So, if you are going to call me from the east coast of the US, and you decided to call me at 7 PM your time, then it would be 12 AM Universal Standard Time and, therefore, 4 PM in California, 1 AM in Denmark, and 8 AM in China.
Since Daylight Savings Time is not universally observed, then the above calculation might be off by an hour during the summer.

Exchange rates

Here are some approximate exchange rates:
10 USD = ~56.3 DKK = ~7.57 EUR = ~81 CNY
10 DKK = ~1.78 USD = ~1.34 EUR = ~13.37 CNY
10 EUR = ~13.2 USD = ~74.4 DKK = ~99.7 CNY
10 CNY = ~1.23 USD = ~7.48 DKK = ~1.0 EUR

Move Schedule

Here's the very rough time-line of where I'll be and when:
1 September 2004 to 14 March 2005: Davis, California, USA - working for NZBT, under DSY, in Protein Chemistry
15 March 2005 to 13 September 2005: Bagsvaerd, Denmark - working for NZAS, under TVB, in Protein Design
14 September 2005 to 14 March 2006: Franklinton, North Carolina, USA - working for NZNA, under PLIN, in Application Technology
15 March 2006 to 5 September 2006: Beijing, China - working for NZCN, under CLAU, in Application Screening
6 September 2006 to 14 December 2006 permanent: Davis, California, USA - working for NZCA, final location
15 December 2006 to June 2007: Bagsvaerd, Denmark - working for NZAS, under HANS, in ADU (cereal) Foods

Mailing address:

My current address is temporary and my official "home" address remains the office address. So, don't update your address books, just continue to send mail to:

Keith A. McCall
1445 Drew Ave
Davis, CA 95616
USA

Current location information: (effective Nov. 26, 2006)

I have moved into this condo. The address is visible, because that is where I am staying, but crossed out because I want to make it clear that this should not be used as my mailing address. All mail should continue to go through my work address.

Home address:
Home address:
2867 Bidwell, #3
Davis, CA 95618
USA

Please note: I have not yet located the mailboxes for this complex and I don't plan to look for them. Please send any and all mail to my work address (below).

Work address:
Novozymes, Inc.
1445 Drew Ave
Davis, CA 95616
USA

Phone information:
Home phone: No home phone service. See mobile number.
Work phone: 1-530-757-8100 (front desk) then extension 8109
Work FAX: 1-530-758-0317
Mobile phone: 1-530-204-8758
Home phone: 1-530-756-1539

In general, when at work, I am only sometimes at my desk, being frequently at my lab bench. If I do not answer at the work number, please leave a message or at least email me. Email is checked quite regularly and is probably the best way to reach me.
Email: kerrismort@yahoo.com

General (International) Phone Information:

Calling from the US, you'll want to dial 011 then the country code (45 for Denmark or 86 for China) then the number.
If you are trying to make a call from Denmark or China to the US, then the procedure is to dial 00 then 1 + area code + telephone number.
For most countries other than the US, pattern used is 00 then country code + area code + telephone number.

Taiwan is a bit of an odd duck on the international calling scene; it's country code is 886 rather than the usual two-digit code. Also, when calling from Taiwan to the US, it is 002 then 1 + area code + telephone number, rather than the more usual 00.

I have listed my phone numbers in the right hand colum of the site entry page, including the country code in front, but I'll list 'em here as well, in the above "Current location information" section, just to be thorough.

Time Zones

Daylight savings time only occurs half the year and is not observed in all countries. It complicates things, so I will be ignoring it in the below discussions.

On the time side of things, there is GMT (Greenwich Mean Time, aka UCT/UTC/Universal/Zulu), UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, same as GMT),CET (Central European Time, UTC + 1 hour), MEZ (Mitteleuropäische Zeit, same as CET), EST (Eastern Standard Time, UTC - 5 hours), PST (Pacific Standard Time, UTC - 8 hours), ChST (Chinese Standard Time, UTC + 8 hours), and a pile of other time abbreviations.

One thing that people may find a bit confusing is the fact that the zero point of UST is exactly on the opposite side of the globe from the international date line.

Out of the locations I will be posted, the one closest to the west side of the international date line (thus the "first" in a new day) is China (UST+8), then Denmark (UST+1), then the US east coast (UST-5), then the US west coast (UST-8). All these various numbers may let you calculate, after some head scratching, that, if it is 1 PM in Denmark, then it is 8 PM in China, 7 AM on the US east coast, and 4 AM on the US west coast.

Unfortunately, all this time figuring is prone to confusion and mixing things up when you suddenly realize you may be calling across the international date line...

To resolve this, I have constructed the following table giving calling locations and reasonable calling time windows (i.e. not having any call be later than 11 PM or earlier than 7 AM for any given location).

Reasonable calling times
Calling	From Time	Calling	To Time	Differential
China	2PM-11PM	Denmark	7AM- 4PM	minus 7

China	7AM-12 noon	US East	6PM-11PM	add 11 & change day
China	8PM-11PM	US East	7AM-10AM	minus 13

China	7AM- 3PM	US West	3PM-11PM	add 8 & change day
China	11PM	US West	7AM	minus 16

Denmark	1PM-11PM	US East	7AM- 5PM	minus 6

Denmark	4PM-11PM	US West	7AM- 2PM	minus 9

US East	10AM-11PM	US West	7AM- 8PM	minus 3

Here are the times and dates around the globe, at the time this page was loaded:
California, USA = Wednesday, 03 December 2008 07:19 PM
North Carolina, USA = Wednesday, 03 December 2008 10:19 PM
Denmark = Thursday, 04 December 2008 04:19 AM
China = Thursday, 04 December 2008 11:19 AM
Er, keep in mind that China does not use daylight savings time, therefore (since the server doing these calculations is in California) the time calculated for China is one hour off. China should now be 12 hours offset from the east coast of the US instead of 13 hours offset.

Past posting location information

(Sept 12 2006 through Nov 25 2006)
Home address:
4301 Ashland Terrace, Apt. D
Davis, CA 95616
USA

(March 15 2006 through Sept 11 2006)
Home address:
Room number 1382 in the L'accueil Beijing, a "residential hotel" in the Haidian District at the north-west corner of Beijing, between the 3rd and 4th ring roads.
L'accueil Residence
No. 15, Haidianzhong Street, Beijing
远中悦茉公寓酒店
北京市海淀区海淀中街15号
phone: Call the front desk of the L'accueil at (011-86-) 10-58730088 then ask the operator for 81382. This should put you through to my room, number 1382. Update, I have heard that the nice people at the front desk want to know not only the number you are calling, but also the name... Er, they think my name is "Alan" or "Mr. Alan", which can complicate things if you don't know you are calling Alan. I think this comes from my passport, which reads "McCall, Keith Alan", leading them to conclude that my last name is Alan and my first name is McCall.

Work address:
Novozymes (China) Investment Co. Ltd.
China Headquarters
14 Xinxi Road
Shangdi Zone, Haidian District
100085 Beijing
China
诺维信中国
北京市海淀区
上地信息路１４号
邮编 : 100085
phone (011-86-) 10 62987888-207 (this is the front desk and then extension 207)
FAX (011-86-) 10 62980085
mobile(011-86-) 13 601149985

(Sept 15, 2005 through March 14 2006)
Home address:
10831 Rio Springs Drive # 304
Raleigh, NC 27614
(35°54'36.8" N 78°35'34.9" W)

Work address:
POBox 576
77 Perry Chapel Church Road
Franklinton, NC 27525
1-919-494-3419 (phone)
1-919-494-3422 (FAX)
1-919-218-3215 (mobile)
Office room number = F 1036

(March 15, 2005 through Sept 14 2005)
Home address:
Fiskedamsgade 31, 1.tv.
2100 Copenhagen East, Denmark
(011 45) 332 31367
(55°42'00.9" N 12°35'14.1" E)

Work address:
Krogshoejvej 36
Bagsværd
DK-2880

Office location = Bldg. 1US.25
(011 45) 444 21384

(Sept 15, 2004 through March 14 2005)
Home address:
619 Pole Line Rd., Apt. 207
Davis, CA 95616
(801) 244 8534
(38°32'56.9" N 121°43'52.0" W)

Work address:
1445 Drew Ave
Davis, CA 95616
(530) 757 8100 (front desk)
(530) 757 0837 (direct line)

(~1999)
Home address:
1855 Pointe Crossing #101
Ann Arbor, MI 48105

(~1993 through ~1995)
Home address:
1800 Williamsburg Rd., Apt 9D
Durham, NC 27707

Page Last Modified: 2008 02 10, 19:56:24

My current travel details.