----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <[email protected]> > To: "<[email protected]>" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:03:53 AM > Subject: Meeting times and DST > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > This is a regular problem in global open source projects - what to do > when people start rolling in to daylight savings time (DST). This > last > weekend was the rollover here in the US. > > A DST change means some people in the project are going to have their > meeting change relative to their local clock. > > Some projects choose to keep the meeting at the same local time > relative to one area's DST settings. For example, when a project is > largely US-based developers, the meeting tends to stay the same time > on the local clock and change twice a year for those using UTC. > > Some projects choose to peg their meeting time to UTC always, so that > never changes. The each group in a country need to deal with changing > the meeting on their local clock. > > Honestly, there are problems with any of these methods - people are > inconvenienced, usually someone can't make the adjusted meeting time, > etc. > > So we could just pick our preference as a project, post it on our > meetings page, and try to remember when DST starts/stops so we remind > people of that change: > > A. Follow UTC and let people deal with local DST changes.
+1 to this. My main reason is we have two major groups of contributors in the US and in Israel, and their DST changes occur at different times, so I think pinning to UTC is the 'least bad' option. Steve > B. Follow DST by keeping the time the same within one particular > country. > C. If yes to B., which country do we peg to? > > - - Karsten > - -- > name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Architect > team: Red Hat Community Architecture & Leadership > uri: http://communityleadershipteam.org > http://TheOpenSourceWay.org > gpg: AD0E0C41 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iD8DBQFPYLNZ2ZIOBq0ODEERAqX/AJsE56MxRLT/UmmXg6fXaSxQ8atscgCgpPFT > s5LQBchDs52t87M8SXW29LA= > =0NBk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > _______________________________________________ Arch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
