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
@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)
Dan Jones
Chris Lilley 🏴