Policy on DST

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Wednesday 03 December 2008 02:48:56 pm Paul W. Frields wrote:
> Every once in a while there's a random annoyance that seems worth
> bringing up and documenting for posterity.  Hopefully this is one of
> those times.
>
> In a nutshell: Does Fedora need a minimal policy for shifting the
> schedule of the #fedora-meeting channel to account for DST?
>
> Sticking with UTC sounds simple.  It's tempting to just use the geek
> perspective and say that's the standard, but this standard causes
> actual problems for humans, who govern their lives by local clocks.
> Moving meeting times back and forth in local time during the year
> seems arbitrary, and can create new conflicts that were carefully
> negotiated months before.  That's a barrier, and therefore my and the
> Board's job to assess and remove if possible.

Except the southern hemisphere has DST at completely different times of the 
year. and different countries start and stop at different times of the year 
also.  If you record your meeting is UTC time  you will always get the 
notification that the meeting is starting at the correct time.   There is no 
simple answer here.   the simplest thing to me seems to be stay at UTC.

Dennis