On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 23:42 +0100, Björn Persson wrote:
> Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 09:55:48AM +0100, Silvia Sanchez wrote:
> > >    Now I'm confused...  Is it 17:00 UTC  or  16:00 UTC?  
> > >    I'm in Germany so at what time should I join?  
> > 
> > Since Europe hasn't changed time, the meeting is at 16:00 UTC for
> > you, ie: one hour earlier.
> 
> Note: UTC is always UTC, regardless of how politicians in various
> countries play with their clocks. UTC does not jump around. Writing
> "since" is therefore misleading. The fact that the meeting was at
> 16:00 UTC is independent of the fact that Europe hasn't changed time.

Right. From now until the end of North American DST, the meeting is at
1600 UTC everywhere. :) The difference is whether that's the same
*local* time for you as before, or not. If you started daylight savings
time during the week before the meeting time change - as most of North
America did - then the meeting would be at the same *local* time for
you as it was before. If you didn't, then the meeting would be one hour
earlier in local time.

The easiest thing to do is just run 'date -u' to see what the current
UTC time is. The canonical time of Fedora meetings is always given in
UTC, and you can always find the current UTC time with that command.
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Adam Williamson
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