First, I note the same issue as George. Going back to Mary's original email, the instructions are ambiguous. I abstained from participating in the poll as I'm not in the APAC region, based on Mary's original note "In particular, we invite members based in Singapore, India, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Australia and other areas in the APAC region to weigh in." I suppose that "In particular" can be interpreted in a number of different ways. If it was intended that everyone should participate, but that extra outreach or encouragement was being directed at APAC participants, then it is open to all, and everyone should be encouraged to participate. If it was intended to be only for APAC participants, then that should be made clear, and the poll should be restarted with only APAC participants weighing in. The invitation was surely well-intentioned, but we've ended up with something that's neither limited nor comprehensive.
If we want a time that is not too painful for the entirety of APAC, the only decent hours are 0600 to 0900 UTC (when it's 8 am to 11 am in Amman and 7 am to 10 pm in Wellington). This is tolerable for London (one hour behind Amman), decent for the rest of Europe, but really bad for North and South America (where this span is 11 pm to 2 am in LA, 2 am to 5 am in DC and 3 am to 6 am in BA).
Georges suggested 10 am NYC time (1400 UTC). This is decent for Western and Central Asia but it's 10 pm in Singapore, and worse from there -- 11 pm in Tokyo, 1 am in Sydney and 3 am in Wellington.
The current time of 0300 UTC is deadly for Europe, Africa and the Middle East, getting tolerable around Abu Dhabi and then falling basically into the work day from Mumbai to Wellington.
The staff-suggested alternatives of 2200 and 2300 UTC are good for most of Australia and for New Zealand, and also for North and South America. They are deadly for Europe, Africa the Middle East and any part of Asia up to and including Singapore/Hong Kong.
Long story short, we can accommodate APAC and Europe at the expense of the Americas (e.g, with 0800 UTC), or we can accommodate the Eastern part of APAC (between 2200 and 0300 and possibly some of the Americas at the earlier end) at the expense of Europe and the Western parts of APAC.
One last point -- rather than generically looking at time zones, it would be preferable to look at the participants' time zones. While this might not change the result, it might identify a few time zones that don't need to be considered.
Greg