On Jul 22, 2012, at 4:42 AM, Ofer Inbar wrote: > Glen Zorn <glenzorn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sat, 2012-07-21 at 13:25 -0700, Martin Thomson wrote: >> >>> On 21 July 2012 06:55, Yoav Nir <ynir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> This year Ramadan started yesterday, and ends on August 19. Moving the meeting one week in either direction would not have helped. >>> >>> But moving it to the southern hemisphere would have. >> >> How? > > By cutting the sunrise-to-sunset fasting period of the day to a much > shorter period. That, and although not relevant to Vancouver so much, going without water on a hot summer day is much harder than doing the same on a winter day. It's winter in the southern hemisphere. Of course, Glen is in Bangkok, so it's hot any day of the year. Yoav