On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 04:31:59PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > > 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. Hm, good point. There's also China and India which don't use DST. I suspect that if we took a heat map we'd be inconveniencing 20-30% or more of our contributors. -- 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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