Meeting times and DST

[Karsten 'quaid' Wade]

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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.
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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name:  Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Architect
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