Changing release time (was Re: Major wiki revisions:)

[Christopher]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Adam Williamson <
adamwill at 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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Christopher L Tubbs II
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