I agree with Marko, every time there is a DST change my calendar is totally messed up (some events are pinned to the Pacific time zone, other to the Central European time zone). By pinning everything to UTC we could save that confusion.

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 9:05 AM Marko Obrovac <mobrovac@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 11 July 2018 at 00:47, Greg Grossmeier <greg@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Great question! (Unfortunately) for simplicity we will keep the windows
pinned to SF/Pacific timezone. Some windows moving and others not would
create too much confusion; even more than the normal daylight savings
changes already do.

It seems to me that it will be confusing only to non-US people, honestly, which are the ones benefiting from this change. When DST changes are applied, and because they are not applied at the same across the globe, people will see their SWAT times change for no apparent reason. At the same time, there is plenty of hours of difference between the last deploy window mentioned in your email and the first SF-centric deployment window to account for the periods when DST settings vary.

I believe that pinning them to UTC would actually eliminate the confusion.


My 2 cents,
Marko

Marko Obrovac, PhD
Senior Services Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation

 
Thanks,

Greg

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