On Dec 3, 2008, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Paul W. Frields (stickster@xxxxxxxxx) said: >> 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. > Well, we'll annoy one hemisphere either way. But I'm for it. It's a choice between not annoying one hemisphere and annoying the other by variations of up to two hours over the year, or annoying everyone equally, although at different times of the year. Being in the Southern hemisphere, I feel the pain of not being able to allocate any other personal appointments on afternoons in which I have Red Hat meetings, because they may cover say 2-3pm at part of the year, 3-4pm at another (short) part of the year, and 4-5pm at yet another part of the year. So I understand the pain you're talking about when you're annoyed by a one-hour change. But considering that not all countries observe DST, even in the Northern Hemisphere, and those that do switch at different times, a large number of people will be inconvenienced no matter what you do. Should the pain be shared by all countries that observe DST, or should it be focused on those that depart from some arbitrary standard set elsewhere (country or Fedora)? I don't know. No solution is particularly fair, so I guess it's just a matter of optimization: minimizing the pain inflicted on contributors. Would it make sense to hold an election? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
