On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Adam Williamson <adamwill@fedoraproject.org> wrote:

On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 12:37 -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:

> And as we're already changing bits during release I'd like to change release
> time to use UTC instead of ET. We talked a lot about it but actually - never
> committed to it. To make the life easier for US folks, 15:00 UTC (we have
> 14:00 and 15:UTC mapped to 10 AM ET) should be the time. Talking to Robyduck
> trying to figure out time difference each time is sometimes flustrating,
> specially as the summer time changes are out of sync. And previously we had
> Robyn in the gang with another different timezone without summer time :).

I wouldn't mind, the only issue is that it means the time would be
different with and without summer time (in timezones that have it,
obviously). At least then everyone can use date -u ...

That's already the case for people in countries whose daylight savings transitions aren't aligned with those for EST/EDT in the US. I don't think too many people would be upset if they have to wait until 11AM to download a release when 6 months prior they could get it at 10AM, especially since deadline changes (when they unfortunately, but inevitably occur) tend to happen on the order of weeks, and mirroring isn't a sub-1hr. activity either (or downloading, for many people, for that matter).

UTC is much less confusing, and I'm a big fan. +1

15:00 UTC seems reasonable, but I have no preference.

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