Meeting times and DST

[Steve Gordon]

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> From: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade at redhat.com>
> To: "<arch at ovirt.org>" <arch at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:03:53 AM
> Subject: Meeting times and DST
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> This is a regular problem in global open source projects - what to do
> when people start rolling in to daylight savings time (DST). This
> last
> weekend was the rollover here in the US.
> 
> A DST change means some people in the project are going to have their
> meeting change relative to their local clock.
> 
> Some projects choose to keep the meeting at the same local time
> relative to one area's DST settings. For example, when a project is
> largely US-based developers, the meeting tends to stay the same time
> on the local clock and change twice a year for those using UTC.
> 
> Some projects choose to peg their meeting time to UTC always, so that
> never changes. The each group in a country need to deal with changing
> the meeting on their local clock.
> 
> Honestly, there are problems with any of these methods - people are
> inconvenienced, usually someone can't make the adjusted meeting time,
> etc.
> 
> So we could just pick our preference as a project, post it on our
> meetings page, and try to remember when DST starts/stops so we remind
> people of that change:
> 
> A. Follow UTC and let people deal with local DST changes.

+1 to this. My main reason is we have two major groups of contributors in the US and in Israel, and their DST changes occur at different times, so I think pinning to UTC is the 'least bad' option.

Steve

> B. Follow DST by keeping the time the same within one particular
> country.
> C. If yes to B., which country do we peg to?
> 
> - - Karsten
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