Who owns auction times?

[Ivy Norsk]

Sims don't auction cats. Auctioneers auction cats.

Really, a sim can't auction a cat without an auctioneer. If an auctioneer leaves the sim, the sim has to get another auctioneer to do it.
See above: sims don't auction cats. Auctioneers auction cats. Also, sims can't just conjure auctioneers. It takes a certain skill-set to be a good auctioneer.

Once upon a time, long ago, there was a thread about auctioneering time. And I will say again what I said then, which is that nobody owns time. The time is free for any hobbyist who wishes to take up auctioneering - and Hypothetically there could be, for instance, a Japanese-speaking auction for a Japanese set of cat lovers at say, the same time as an Australian English-speaking audience auction - if there were enough auction-attendees to support such a thing. BUT, this is a community, and people (by which I mean auctioneers) have over the years found ways to cooperate and try not to step on other people's toes to provide auction coverage in all time zones. And we also all know that many auctions are under-attended and it would be great to move More people into having fun in SL by going to auctions as a fun event, much as in RL people go to auctions for fun. More people attending would take some stress off the events.