Re: sdwwg: Change of meeting times for the change of season

> We propose to move the meeting times back to where they used to be 
> last summer/winter: i.e. Wednesdays  20:00 UTC (Thursdays for some of us).

+1 from me. this would be great.


On 09/28/2015 04:26 PM, Simon.Cox@csiro.au wrote:
>
> +1 from me.
>
> Regrets again this week: I have a clash with UCUM Governance committee.
>
> *From:*Kerry Taylor [mailto:kerry.taylor@acm.org]
> *Sent:* Monday, 28 September 2015 11:36 PM
> *To:* public-sdw-wg@w3.org
> *Subject:* sdwwg: Change of meeting times for the change of season
>
> As briefly discussed in the meeting last week, we propose to change 
> the time of the regular meeting to adjust to seasonal changes that, in 
> stages over the next
>
> 6 weeks or so, mean our northern and southern hemisphere clocks move 
> further apart by 2 hours.
>
> For those of us on East Coast Australia, this means, at the current 
> meeting time of 1pm UTC, meetings from  the 7th October  will start at 
> midnight and this is not sustainable!
>
> We propose to move the meeting times back to where they used to be 
> last summer/winter: i.e. Wednesdays  20:00 UTC (Thursdays for some of us).
>
> The remaining question is when to change.
>
> We propose  to change for the meeting of 4th November, that is the 
> first regular meeting after Sapporo and when most (all?) of the local 
> time shifts are over, and the Europeans, at least, would only need to 
> change meeting times once.  The Australians, on the other hand would 
> have several midnight meetings and would need to change twice -- i.e. 
> 7th October and again 4th November.
>
> Are there any "I cannot live with this" objections to setting meetings 
> at Wednesdays  20:00 UTC (that is Thursdays for some of us) from the 
> 4th of November? 
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=SDWWG+Call&iso=20151104T20&ah=1 
> Is there a bright alternative suggestion?
>
> Kerry & Ed
>


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