[WG: Production / Deploying Sakai] REMINDER: Daylight Savings Time - Check your meeting times...

[Knoop, Peter]

Just a quick reminder to confirm when meetings are starting during this transition period when some of the community has switched to daylight savings time and some are still awaiting the switch. 

-peter
Sakai Project Coordinator

-----Original Message-----
From: Knoop, Peter 
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 6:26 PM
To: 'sakai-dev Dev'; sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org; production at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Daylight Savings Time Coming Soon: Check your meeting times...

The switch to Daylight Savings Time (DST) is approaching.  As we are a global community is important to note that not everyone switches to DST at the same time; therefore, you may need to make special accommodations in scheduling meetings where some of the participants have switched and some have not.  This year most of North America will switch on 8 March 2009, whereas most of Europe will do so later, on 29 March 2009, and much of Australia will switch even later, on 5 April 2009.  

There are a variety of websites that can help you figure out what the correct meeting times are for various localities.  Here's one I have found useful:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html

They also have a nice table of when places will switch this time around:

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst2009a.html

Note that Collab, which is running Sakai 2.5, suffers from SAK-15781, so if you're looking at the Sakai Conference Bridge schedule, then be careful of how you interpret meeting times between 9 March and 5 April!  The times maybe an hour off for you...

-peter
Sakai Project Coordinator