I'm supportive of pinning it to 8am us pacific year round if it's beneficial for more contributors.
On Fri, Nov 13, 2026 at 12:36 AM Nevin Zheng <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > At this week's iceberg-rust community sync, Matt flagged that our meeting > time shifted when daylight saving time ended in the US and Europe > (thanks!). The calendar invite is pinned to UTC, so the sync now lands an > hour earlier locally: 7 AM Pacific / 10 AM Eastern / 16:00 CET, instead of > 8 AM / 11 AM / 17:00. A couple of West Coast contributors couldn't make it > this week. > > Before changing anything, we wanted to get input from the broader > community. > > Question under discussion: what time works best for the community going > forward? > > Options under consideration: > > 1. Keep it at 15:00 UTC year-round. Stable for regions without DST (23:00 > in Beijing/Shanghai); the US and Europe shift by an hour twice a year (7 AM > PT in winter, 8 AM PT in summer). > > 2. Pin it to 8 AM US Pacific year-round. Stable for the US and mostly > stable for Europe (17:00 CET/CEST); in winter it becomes 16:00 UTC, which > is midnight in Beijing/Shanghai. > > On my side: for US Pacific contributors, 8 AM PT is a more reasonable > time. That said, I'd especially like to hear from folks in Asia, since > option 2 means a midnight meeting in winter for them. > > Please reply with your preference (and your time zone). After about a week > I'll summarize what we hear and we can settle it from there. > > Warmly, > Nevin > > Sent from my 🤖 (Claude, Opus 5.5) Nevin >
