Yay timezones.

A little lesson on timezones. Portland is in either PST or PDT. S doesn't 
stand for summer is stands for Standard, aka when daylight savings is not 
in effect. The D in PDT stands for Daylight, aka when daylight savings is 
in effect, ergo wat most Europeans would consider Summer which is nice and 
confusing with the S.

In Europe, CET is equivalent to PST and CEST to PDT. Since the US switches 
over to daylight saving two-three weeks before Europe (freaking colonies) 
the offset right now is 8 hours, from PDT which is UTC-7 to CET which is 
UTC+1.

For this week it means that 10AM PDT = 17:00:00 UTC = 18:00:00 CET. For the 
upcoming triage on the 20th of March and the 27th of March this is the 
offset.

Europe switches over into D-time or Summer-time on the 30th of March so 
from then on out we'll be in UTC+2 instead of +1 (I'm assuming Central 
Europe timezone here). For the triages from the 3rd of April onwards the 
offset is thus 9 hours, making it 19:00:00 in CEST when it's 10:00:00 in 
PDT.

To make matters worse Europe switches back to non-daylight savings before 
the US (again with the damn colonies). DST ends in Europe on the 26th of 
October but in the US on the 2nd of November. This in turn means that for 
the triage on the 30th of October 10:00:00 PDT translates to 17:00:00 UTC 
but since we've already switched away from DST now is 18:00:00 CET, not 
CEST.

The week after that, so the 6th of November everyone is back on one line 
when it comes to DST. We're back to a 9 hours offset so 10:00:00 PST is now 
again 19:00:00 CET.

References:
- PyCon 2013 / Blame it on Caesar: What you need to know about dates, times 
and time 
zones: 
http://pyvideo.org/video/1765/blame-it-on-caesar-what-you-need-to-know-about-d
- Computerphile / The problem with times and 
timezones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
- Timezonebuddy: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html <- 
Select 10 AM and then search for Portland, not a specific timezone, it'll 
take care of mapping the right timezones according to DST rules in effect

On Tuesday, 18 March 2014 16:50:02 UTC+1, Ashley Penney wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As some of you will know we've been copying the platform team and doing a 
> weekly triage/meeting amongst the community to discuss current open PRs, 
> requests, code in progress, and simply trying to close PRs on some of the 
> popular modules.
>
> We originally picked 0900 (PST) on Tuesdays to run this but it clashes 
> with leaving work time for a lot of the european community members.  We're 
> going to try moving this to:
>
> *1000 (PST) on Thursdays*
>
> As before we'll continue to send out a hangout link an hour or so before 
> the hangout as well as make sure we paste it in #puppet-dev for everyone to 
> come along and talk modules with us.  We're hoping the move to slightly 
> later will help our commuting community guys!
>
> Thanks,
>

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