Meeting times post US DST changes Nov 2020

[mmarchini]

It's that time of the year again. Please answer the following questions, so we can decide if a time change is necessary as well as how to proceed:

1. Does the current time work for you after DST changes (9:30am Pacific Time)?
2. If we change the meeting time, is Wednesday the best day for you?

@nodejs/diagnostics please answer so we can create a Doodle to find a new time if necessary.

[mhdawson]

The time in the calendar is ok for me, being on the half hour is a bit awkward as it's more likely to conflict with meetings in both hours that it spans.

[gireeshpunathil]

• Current time is 11 PM for for me, which is tight. Earlier, the better
• No preference for any particular day

[Qard]

So shift off the half-hour mark, and earlier? Do we want to do half an hour earlier? Or a full hour and a half earlier? I can definitely do half an hour earlier. An hour and a half...well...I'll make it work, but I suck at mornings. 😆

[Flarna]

As mentioned already in similar queries evening slots in CET are hard for me. But I will monitor as I did it in the past.

[mhdawson]

Half hour earlier works for me but 1 and 1/2 hours would conflict often with other meetings I have.

[mmarchini]

Half an hour earlier works for me too (it's the earliest I can go for a meeting)

[Qard]

Do we have enough of a distribution of people that we should start alternating? Would we have more people if, for example, we timed it 12 hours later?

[mmarchini]

I think we have 6 active members who have shown interest in joining meeting, on either slot we can get up to 4 members attending I think (that's mostly my guess, might be less for one of the slots).

[RafaelGSS]

we timed it 12 hours later?

For me is a bad time (too late)

[mhdawson]

12 hours later would be out for me (middle of the night).

[mhdawson]

Maybe we should gather timezones to figure out what if any overlap there is.

[legendecas]

I'm on UTC+8. After the daylight saving time change the meeting time will be 1:30AM. I can manage to attend if the meeting is before 1AM (not a good rest time though 😅).

[mmarchini]

I'm on PST (UTC-8)

@nodejs/diagnostics if you would like to join the meetings moving forward, please share your timezone here :)

[mhdawson]

I'm in EST (UTC -5)

[Flarna]

I'm in CET (UTC+1)

[Qard]

UTC-8 also.

[RafaelGSS]

I'm in UTC-3.

[mmarchini]

Ok, so this is the current time for everyone based on comments from this thread:

We can move it back half an hour, which would look like this:

Or one hour:

Or one hour and a half:

I'm fine with all options, I would just ask someone else to host for the last two (moving back one hour or one hour and a half).I checked and 8am PST on Wednesdays doesn't conflict with other Node.js or OpenJSF meetings

Let's use reactions on this issue to vote for a new time @nodejs/diagnostics!

👀 move back half an hour
🚀 move back one hour
❤️ move back one hour and a half
😄 all are good!

[gireeshpunathil]

I would just ask someone else to host for the last two

I can do that, if we end up picking up one of those

[Qard]

I'd like to add 😄 to the votes for "all are fine with me"

[mmarchini]

So the current results are:

• Move back half an hour: 2 votes
• Move back one hour: 1 vote
• Move back one hour and a half: 2 votes

I think I should've been more clear on the instructions: please vote on all times you can join the meeting, not your preference, otherwise it will be hand to find a time that works for most people. I'll give a couple more days in case folks want to update their votes.

[mmarchini]

Results are:

Move back half an hour: 1 votes
Move back one hour: 1 vote
Move back one hour and a half: 2 votes
All are good: 3 votes

With that, moving back one hour and a half is the winner. @mhdawson can you update the calendar (or point me to where I can update it)?

[mhdawson]

Is it ok if we also shift 1 week? I have a conflict every week at the new time on the current weeks, but if it was shifted 1 week I'd be able to make it.

So moved back 1 1/2 hours and shifted a week ok? If so I'd make the next one Feb 10 at 11 ET and then it would be every 2 weeks after that?

[mmarchini]

sounds good to me

[RafaelGSS]

SGTM

[Qard]

I'm fine with shifting a week. 👍

[mhdawson]

Calendar updated, closing.