Re: [office] Meeting schedule going forward: Daylight Savings Time

[Peter Junge <peterjunge@RedOffice.com>]

Hi,

as this is both tough for members on the West Coast and in East Asia, I
would vote for the compromise, so my choice is "b) 1430 UTC".

Best regards,
Peter

P.S.: Rob, Don, Bart: Sorry for the extra mail traffic, previously I 
have been using my private mail account by mistake.

robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> (I'm cc'ing the chairs of the ODF Adoption and OIC TC's since they will 
> face this same issue on their TC's)
> 
> I just went to cancel the November 2nd meeting, per our decision on 
> Monday, and saw that the repeating invite for the TC meetings will expire 
> at the end of October.  We set it to expire at this time so we can adjust 
> the meeting time to account for the various daylight savings time changes 
> over the next month .
> 
> The changes, as I understand them are:
> 
> DST ends:
> 
> In Europe on Sunday, October 25th this year.
> 
> In the US on Sunday, November 1st.
> 
> DST begins:
> 
> In Brazil, on Sunday October 17th.
> 
> And China does not observe daylight savings time changes.
> 
> Current meeting time for the TC has been at:
> 
> 1400 UTC = 7am West Coast US, 10:00am East Coast US, 4:00pm Hamburg, 10pm 
> Beijing
> 
> What we have done in past years is keep the US time constant, resulting in 
> a meeting time after the DST changes of:
> 
> 1500 UTC = 7am West Coast US, 10:00am East Coast US, 4:00pm Hamburg, 11pm 
> Beijing
> 
> Obviously that makes it quite late in Beijing. 
> 
> The alternative would be to keep the UTC the same, which gives us:
> 
> 1400 UTC = 6am West Coast US, 9:00am East Coast US, 3:00pm Hamburg, 10pm 
> Beijing
> 
> I know of another TC that solved this problem with a compromise: start the 
> meeting at 1430.
> 
> So three choices for a meeting time:
> 
> a) 1400 UTC
> b) 1430 UTC
> c) 1500 UTC
> 
> I don't have a strong preference here, since the globe appears to be 
> aligned in such a fashion that I will get enough sleep whatever we decide. 
>  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Rob
> 
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