New meeting times

[Trott]

With daylight savings time changes all done and with people having had a decent opportunity to update their availability in the spreadsheet, here are the new meeting times:

• Wednesday UTC 12:00
• Wednesday UTC 20:00
• Wednesday UTC 21:00
• Thursday UTC 14:00

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[Trott]

Pacific Daylight Time:

• Wednesday 5am
• Wednesday 1pm
• Wednesday 2pm
• Thursday 7am

Eastern Daylight Time

• Wednesday 8am
• Wednesday 4pm
• Wednesday 5pm
• Thursday 10am

British Summer Time

• Wednesday 1pm
• Wednesday 9pm
• Wednesday 10pm
• Thursday 3pm

Central European Summer Time

• Wednesday 2pm
• Wednesday 10pm
• Wednesday 11pm
• Thursday 4pm

Moscow Standard Time

• Wednesday 3pm
• Wednesday 11pm
• Wednesday 11:59pm/Thursday midnight
• Thursday 5pm

India Standard Time

• Wednesday 5:30pm
• Thursday 1:30am
• Thursday 2:30am
• Thursday 7:30pm

China Standard Time

• Wednesday 8pm
• Thursday 4am
• Thursday 5am
• Thursday 10pm

[Trott]

Those times look especially bad for our TSC members in East Asia and South Asia. The Wednesday UTC 12:00 and Thursday UTC 14:00 times are all a 4 or 5 (on a 0-5 scale) time for each of them, so that's good. But those middle two times are indeed awful for those folks. I'm going to run it again with our old 3-meeting rotation and see what comes out.

[Trott]

If we want 3 meeting times, those would be all on Wednesday:

• UTC noon
• UTC 3pm
• UTC 9pm

Pacific Daylight Time:

• 5am
• 8am
• 2pm

Eastern Daylight Time:

• 8am
• 11am
• 5pm

British Summer Time:

• 1pm
• 4pm
• 10pm

Central European Summer Time:

• 2pm
• 5pm
• 11pm

Moscow Standard Time:

• 3pm
• 6pm
• Thursday midnight

India Standard Time:

• 5:30pm
• 8:30pm
• Thursday 2:30am

China Standard Time:

• 8pm
• 11pm
• Thursday 5am

[Trott]

I think the 3-time rotation seems more balanced. (It has a lower standard deviation, which I equate to "more fair" but you can take that too far--the lowest standard deviation is a one time rotation that is good for almost everyone.) I'm not excited about having 1 in every 3 meetings be at 5am local time rather than 1 in every 4 meetings, but the 4 meeting rotation puts half of the TSC meetings at unthinkable times for folks in India and China.

I also like that the 3-meeting rotation means all meetings are always on Wednesday in most time zones. It simplifies calendaring.

[Trott]

Putting the tsc-agenda label on this one in case we don't make a decision before the next meeting, but my hope is we can agree on the schedule that rotates through three meeting times and close this before then.

[mhdawson]

Rich thanks for generating/sharing the options.

I'm good with either the 3 or 4 slot rotation.

I'll move next weeks meeting to 11am on Wednesday as discussed today to avoid the config with the Next-10 mini-summit

[mcollina]

I prefer the 3 slots rotation

[apapirovski]

4 slot rotation seems painful for a number of timezones. But as someone in PDT, either is fine for me.

[cjihrig]

I like the 3 slot rotation more.

[RaisinTen]

+1 about the 3 slot rotation.

[mhdawson]

I believe I have updated the calendar as per the 3 slot rotation, closing.