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0 pointsithkuil4y ago0 comments

It's fine as long as all the meetings are conventionally expressed in one time zone.

If some meetings are created in some US tz, some other meetings in some EU timezones, then when the biyearly DSTgeddon week(s) come, you not only have meetings shifting unexpectedly but you also have conflicts since some meetings changed and others didn't!

Such a mess. But it doesn't happen frequently enough for it to be worthwhile fixing/regulating/whatever

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lolinder4y ago· 1 in thread

> If some meetings are created in some US tz, some other meetings in some EU timezones, then when the biyearly DSTgeddon week(s) come, you not only have meetings shifting unexpectedly but you also have conflicts since some meetings changed and others didn't!

But this is a problem in the real world, not a software problem. Choosing to use UTC when that's not how the business actually thinks about schedules will lead to you just doing your own DST math, which is harder than just storing the correct time zones from the get go.

ithkuilOP4y ago

Sure it is a real world problem. And no, I wasn't advocating for UTC which would not work for half a year, instead of causing a few days of minor headaches.

It's caused by the fact that different branches of a large corp have genuine situations where some meetings are between local employees and other situations where you invite a mix of distributed people.

Thus there is no "natural default" as to which timezone is "correct".

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