Sorry, but i continue to think its not just lame, its wrong. Either leave UTC+x away, or make it correct for the given date (UTC+2), or write something like CETDST.
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 08:38:35PM +0200, Carsten Bormann wrote: > On Aug 8, 2019, at 20:21, Toerless Eckert <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Thursday, Aug 29 2019 (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, > >> Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna > > > > And webex continues to confuse me, > > Webex is just following the great tradition of certain other widely used > calendaring tools: foist the confusion of the people that designed it on all > of its users. > > > because UTC+1 is NOT the local time > > on Aug 29 in Amsterdam/Berlin because of DST, > > The ???UTC+1??? is just a lame way of saying what the time in > Amsterdam/Berlin normally is, for people who don???t know where those weird > settlements might be. > > > so is the meeting at > > 5 PM UTC+1 or at 5 PM local time in Amsterdam/Berlin (UTC+2) ? > > Webex is trying to tell you the meeting is at 17:00 (5 pm for people who get > their time from sundials) at Amsterdam/Berlin local time, which happens to be > UTC+0200 on that date. You can always look up whether DST applies on > timeanddate.com; this is none of Webex???s business. Webex only tells you > where Amsterdam/Berlin approximately are, because you are not expected to > know that. > > > Best to wait for EU to get rid of DST to fix this webex bug *sigh*. > > Actually, that is probably true. But if some countries go for permanent DST, > Webex will then always show the wrong time and not just half the year. > > The real fix is to announce all meetings in Reykjavik time (UTC+0000 the > whole year). Log in at ietf.webex.com, use the menu to go to preferences, > and set the time zone to Monrovia/Reykjavik. > > Grüße, Carsten -- --- [email protected] _______________________________________________ Anima mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/anima
