When we send the all-hands weekly meeting agenda and logistics email, it starts with the meeting time in all of the main #TimeZone cities nearby which live the #W3C team members:
05:00 Vancouver; 06:00 Phoenix; 07:00 Chicago; 08:00 Boston; 13:00 London; 14:00 Paris; 17:00 La Réunion; 21:00 Beijing; 22:00 Tokyo
@vladcampos We've worked with those time zones for so many years that our brains already know the hours :D
I think you can get the timeanddate online service to show you different times at once. We use it to ensure we get the right time for infrequent time zones. Or we use the meeting planning service of that site to show more cities at a given time and date.
Couldn't you just send it as UTC and let them figure it out? 🌍
@danjones000 @koalie Experience around summer time changes with participants in both hemispheres indicates a 10 to 20% failure rate in that case.
Of course, copy pasting a times list which is partly incorrect is worse.
Timezones are always tricky. As a web developer, they're one of the things I hate the most.
I had a notification on my phone about a week ago telling me to restart my phone so they could install new timezone definitions.
My immediate thought was: "Someone changed their timezones again? What headache will that mean for me?"
Coralie Mercier (W3C)
Renoir Boulanger
Vladimir Campos
Dan Jones
Chris Lilley 🏴