Every once in a while there's a random annoyance that seems worth bringing up and documenting for posterity. Hopefully this is one of those times. In a nutshell: Does Fedora need a minimal policy for shifting the schedule of the #fedora-meeting channel to account for DST? Sticking with UTC sounds simple. It's tempting to just use the geek perspective and say that's the standard, but this standard causes actual problems for humans, who govern their lives by local clocks. Moving meeting times back and forth in local time during the year seems arbitrary, and can create new conflicts that were carefully negotiated months before. That's a barrier, and therefore my and the Board's job to assess and remove if possible. Most of our contributor base observes some sort of DST, so we should simply set dates on which the schedule shifts automatically. We need not use USA standards for the date of the shifting. Practically speaking, the effect is that the meeting that happens at 11:00 local time during DST stays at 11:00 local time when DST ends, and vice versa. That's much easier on humans than dickering around with UTC, especially when the tools we use for tracking our time already have the built-in capacity to change over from DST to non-DST. Why bring this up? Take for example a Fedora team that meets in the hour between two other meetings in the channel. The prior meeting moves its schedule in UTC (to stay at the same local time) and the following one does not, and thus shifts earlier by an hour when DST ends. Suddenly there's a conflict. We could leave this up to individual teams to resolve when this happens, but wouldn't it be easier to just change one wiki page twice a year? And no, the decongestants haven't worn off yet, thanks for asking. ;-) -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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