Policy on DST

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Dennis Gilmore wrote:

> On Wednesday 03 December 2008 02:48:56 pm Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> Every once in a while there's a random annoyance that seems worth
>> bringing up and documenting for posterity.  Hopefully this is one of
>> those times.
>>
>> In a nutshell: Does Fedora need a minimal policy for shifting the
>> schedule of the #fedora-meeting channel to account for DST?
>>
>> Sticking with UTC sounds simple.  It's tempting to just use the geek
>> perspective and say that's the standard, but this standard causes
>> actual problems for humans, who govern their lives by local clocks.
>> Moving meeting times back and forth in local time during the year
>> seems arbitrary, and can create new conflicts that were carefully
>> negotiated months before.  That's a barrier, and therefore my and the
>> Board's job to assess and remove if possible.
>
> Except the southern hemisphere has DST at completely different times of the
> year. and different countries start and stop at different times of the year
> also.  If you record your meeting is UTC time  you will always get the
> notification that the meeting is starting at the correct time.   There is no
> simple answer here.   the simplest thing to me seems to be stay at UTC.

ooo - dennis has a point about the southern hemisphere.

I think I agree with him as to staying with UTC.

-sv