On Friday, February 21, 2020 9:03:26 PM MST Neal Gompa wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 7:28 PM John M. Harris Jr <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > > > On Friday, February 21, 2020 2:31:14 AM MST jkonecny@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks a lot for this change. 00:00 is always confusing to deal with. > > > > > > > > > > > > Jirka > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2020-02-20 at 14:04 -0500, Mohan Boddu wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It has been brought to our attention that release freezes starting at > > > > 00:00 UTC has been confusing for a lot of people. So, we decided to > > > > change it to 14:00 UTC. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The freeze dates are not going to change, just the time when freeze > > > > starts is going to change. Fedora 32 schedule [1] has been updated to > > > > reflect the changed time. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [1] https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-32/f-32-key-tasks.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mohan Boddu. > > > > > > > > I really must disagree. 0000 UTC is at least aligned with something. I > > cannot imagine what 1400 UTC was chosen to align with, or how this will > > be any less confusing. This seems like it'd only be *more* confusing. > > > > > > > 14:00 UTC is 9:00 EST, so it basically means to everyone: do > everything the day before. And 00:00 is confusing because people > interpret it either the day before or the day after. It's a "special" > time that nobody should ever schedule anything people need to care > about at. That's simply not true. 0000 UTC is midnight UTC. That is not difficult to grasp. I certainly understand the mappings, which is why this is even more confusing. Why was 1400 chosen? -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
