On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
On Wednesday 03 December 2008 02:48:56 pm Paul W. Frields wrote:
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.
Except the southern hemisphere has DST at completely different times of the
year. and different countries start and stop at different times of the year
also. If you record your meeting is UTC time you will always get the
notification that the meeting is starting at the correct time. There is no
simple answer here. the simplest thing to me seems to be stay at UTC.
ooo - dennis has a point about the southern hemisphere.
I think I agree with him as to staying with UTC.
-sv
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