From: Philip Oakley Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:30:35 GMT Subject: Re: Bi-Weekly Standup - Time/timezone in calendar? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20190925143247.GD11444@cat> On 25/09/2019 15:32, Thomas Gummerer wrote: > On 09/25, Philip Oakley wrote: >> Hi, >> >> At the Virtual Git Contributors Summit we discussed (#13) the bi-weekly >> standup meetings (mentioned in the Git Rev News edition 55 under >> 'News/Various'). >> >> The Git Events calendar [1] that's linked from the Rev News doesn't actually >> say what time zone to use for the stand-up start time, so at first glance >> one can get confused by summer time and national time zone differences. >> >> Currently it's saying (when clicked on, via 'more details') >> >> Git Standup >> Monday, September 30⋅6:00 – 7:00pm >> Every 2 weeks on Monday >> >> I thought it was to be 1700 UTC, which currently is 1800 BST her in UK, and >> 1900 CST in Europe. > That's my recollection as well, and what the calendar should say. > Thanks for flagging this! > >> If I hover over the event (have to restart the calendar), I (depending on >> view) do get an indicator in the lower left status bar that >> "Events shown in time zone: Coordinated Universal Time". but with a 5pm >> indication in the calendar sheet. >> >> Is this google calendar trying to be too clever, or should "1700 UTC" be >> included in the event details? I don't use Google calendar except for >> occasional reference. > Yeah, I think the embed view of the Google Calendar is trying to be > too clever here. I did set the event up to be at 17:00 UTC, and I'm > not sure why it showed up otherwise for you. > > I have now updated the event with a few more details, including that > it is happening at 17:00 UTC, and added that information to the title > as well. Hope that helps! Looks a lot better, especially if one clicks and selects the 'more details' option (which changes to local TZ) > Also replying to your last question in https://github.com/git/git.github.io/issues/394#issuecomment-535030810: > >> Also given Dscho's comment at the summit about late evenings, are we >> changing the time for those dark winter nights soon to come (N >> Hemisphere)? > I don't know. I'd be happy to keep it at 17:00 UTC, but that might be > a bit early for folks living on the west coast. I don't have a strong > opinion on this, but I'm happy to update the calendar (or not > depending on what we decide) once the decision is made. Once everyone changed from daylight saving, then changing to local clock is likely (unless we have a few southern hemisphere dst folks going the other way! James Ramsay?) >> Philip >> >> >> [1] https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=nk8ph2kh4p5tgfcctb8i7dm6d4%40group.calendar.google.com >>