Policy on DST

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 04:31:59PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
> 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.

Hm, good point.  There's also China and India which don't use DST.  I
suspect that if we took a heat map we'd be inconveniencing 20-30% or
more of our contributors.

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