Shane, all,
Technically, there are two correct ways to announce times:
a) UTC only. Everybody should know in which timezone they are, do the math: 12:00 UTC - You are in UTC +1 -> 13:00
b) UTC + timeshift. Same as above, but a bit more complicated, one should do more math: 12:00 UTC-7 - I am at UTC+1 = +8 hours = 20:00.
Therefore, the best way is to announce UTC only, unless the event is mainly for those in one or two timezones. You also avoid the usual madness of DST switching in different days even in the same timezone and in different ways north/south (se Japan/Australia, eg).
And please, PLEASE!, never in am-pm. Day is of 24 hours. See above, case b, what happens if you do am-pm.
So my suggestion is to have always UTC in the object line and complement that with a bunch of courtesy translation in some populuar timezones. I had even made a script that does the same thing as Worldtimebuddy or Timeandate.
Cheers
Carlo
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Da: "Shane Coughlan" <scoughlan@...>
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Inviato: Mercoledì, 9 marzo 2022 5:11:18
Oggetto: Re: [openchain] 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
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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
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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
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