Re: Timezone management for our community
It’s a great idea (and I use this service all the time on my phone), but some people wanted timezone information inside emails. So we used the current format… 🤷
In Europe we often *only* provide UTC and a link to something like Timebuddy. However, we tried and had questions from people about what that meant in their timezone. 🤦♂️
I see three possible solutions right now:
1) we do not change anything
2) we only provide UTC and a link to Timebuddy
3) we name the country of the timezone
The last one would seem to solve all problems but it would make email subjects incredibly long. Example:
OpenChain Regular Webinar: GPLv3 - 06:00 United States Pacific, 14:00 UTC, 15:00 Belgium, 19:30 Mumbai, 22:00 China, 23:00 Korea and Japan
Regards
Shane
Shane Coughlan
OpenChain General Manager
+818040358083
Book a meeting:
https://meetings.hubspot.com/scoughlan
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In Europe we often *only* provide UTC and a link to something like Timebuddy. However, we tried and had questions from people about what that meant in their timezone. 🤦♂️
I see three possible solutions right now:
1) we do not change anything
2) we only provide UTC and a link to Timebuddy
3) we name the country of the timezone
The last one would seem to solve all problems but it would make email subjects incredibly long. Example:
OpenChain Regular Webinar: GPLv3 - 06:00 United States Pacific, 14:00 UTC, 15:00 Belgium, 19:30 Mumbai, 22:00 China, 23:00 Korea and Japan
Regards
Shane
Shane Coughlan
OpenChain General Manager
+818040358083
Book a meeting:
https://meetings.hubspot.com/scoughlan
On Mar 9, 2022, at 12:55, Norio Kobota <norio.kobota@...> wrote:
Hi Shane,
How about using the following service together?
https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
Best,
-- kobota-----Original Message-----
From: main@... <main@...>
On Behalf Of Shane Coughlan
Sent: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 12:48 PM
To: OpenChain Main <main@...>
Subject: [openchain] Timezone management for our community
Dear all
We have a community spanning three continents and a constant stream of
meetings.
To manage this we usually publish meeting times in Pacific Standard Time
(PST), Universal Time Coordinated (UTC), Central European Time (CET), India
Standard Time (IST), China Standard Time (CST), Korea Standard Time (KST)
and Japan Standard Time (JST).
However, an area of potential confusion has been flagged. The United States
has a seasonal timezone called Central Summer Time, and they frequently
use the abbreviation (CST), a direct overlap with China Standard Time.
How would you like to see us resolve this to reduce the potential for
confusion?
Regards
Shane
Shane Coughlan
OpenChain General Manager
+818040358083
Book a meeting:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://meetings.hubspot.com/scoughlan__;!
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