Title: Survey: Weekly Meeting Schedule Author: Javier Casares Published: 2020-10-14 Last modified: 2023-03-16 --- [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/javiercasares/) [Javier Casares](https://profiles.wordpress.org/javiercasares/) 15:55 _on_ 2020-10-14 Tags: [Hosting Community ( 126 )](https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/tag/hosting-community/), Meeting Time, [Meetings ( 243 )](https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/tag/meetings/), Survey, [Weekly Hosting Chat ( 243 )](https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/tag/weekly-hosting-chat/) # Survey: Weekly Meeting Schedule As seasons change, the warmer locations in the world experience longer day-time and the comparatively cooler locations experience longer nights, which brings the popular concept of [DST (daylight saving time)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time) into the conversation for the HostingHosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. Team. Typically countries move their clocks forward one hour during summer and spring, and countries in autumn or winter seasons turn their clocks back one hour to save as much daylight as possible. The hosting team currently has two weekly meetings, one at **09:00 UTC** and another at **18:00 UTC** to provide a wider coverage for contributors from all over the world. The first meeting time is more convenient for folks in regions such as [APAC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia-Pacific)( Asia / Pacific) + [EMEA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe,_the_Middle_East_and_Africa)( Europe / Middle-East) and the second meeting time is more convenient for folks in regions such as EMEA + AMER (America). Taking into account that APAC time zones generally do not change times for daylight savings, but that Europe and America do: > **Should meeting times be adjusted for daylight savings?** Here is a quick example of the current situation as DST takes into effect in a few weeks (note: some countries have already made changes and others will do so on the weekend of **October 24** or later). The idea would be to _apply the changes by **Wednesday, October 28**_. The proposal is to consider whether to adjust to a better time or not (compared to the current local time). ### Meeting 09:00 UTC | City | Now 09:00 UTC | **After DST****09:00 UTC** | **After DST****10:00 UTC** | | Wellington (NZ) | 22:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 | | Tokyo (JP) | 18:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | | New Delhi (IN) | 14:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | | Moscow (RU) | 12:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | | Berlin (DE) | 11:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | | London (GB) | 10:00 | 09:00 | 10:00 | Some timezone for meeting at 09:00 UTC ### Meeting at 18:00 UTC | **City** | **Now** **18:00 UTC** | **After DST****18:00 UTC** | **After DST****19:00 UTC** | | Berlin (DE) | 20:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 | | London (GB) | 19:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | | Brasilia (BR) | 15:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | | New York (US) | 14:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | | Los Angeles (US) | 11:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | | Honolulu (US) | 08:00 | 08:00 | 09:00 | Some timezone for meeting at 18:00 UTC **Which schedule works best for you?** Do you prefer to keep the meetings at **09: 00 UTC** or should we move them to **10:00 UTC**? For the second meeting do folks prefer to stick to **18:00 UTC** or should we change it to **19:00 UTC**? Please feel free to drop a comment with your preferred option for either meeting, or both. Your feedback is valuable! Hat tip to [@javiercasares](https://profiles.wordpress.org/javiercasares/) for writing this post and [@chaion07](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chaion07/) for the peer review. 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[Javier Casares](https://profiles.wordpress.org/javiercasares/) 16:24 _on_ 2020- 10-14 3. In my opinion, we shouldn’t change the 09:00 UTC meeting, but change the 18:00 UTC to 19:00 UTC. 4. Changing the first one means basically move one hour for the APAC (and 1 hour earlier for Europeans), and changing the second one means basically maintain the actual time, because most countries have DST. 5. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/026442706e891e9b7a6428b5121412659e8c6136cff538446da17fa6f663375e? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 6. [davidvee](https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidvee/) 18:30 _on_ 2020-10-14 7. I attend a meeting in the 18:00 UTC spot and I would prefer to change for DST. 8. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ae4a4e54f58de7f040c1caef738bb56f5ccaf16b0eed9b2304df92826609d3ca? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 9. [Mike Schroder](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kirasong/) 09:14 _on_ 2020-10- 20 10. Personally, I prefer leaving the 0900 UTC meeting at a fixed time both due to the current time in NZ, and that most APAC countries don’t do DST. 11. However, if we try that and attendance is lower, maybe we can revisit it? 12. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/55be13f44d2f6b002041de75a3981568cfc3842eaa7a07e6a42f980539c129f3? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 13. [Matthias Pfefferle](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pfefferle/) 09:36 _on_ 2020- 10-21 14. I would vote for a change to 10:00 UTC. ### Leave a Reply 󠀁[Cancel reply](https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/2020/10/14/survey-weekly-meeting-schedule/?output_format=md#respond)󠁿 You must be [logged in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmake.wordpress.org%2Fhosting%2F2020%2F10%2F14%2Fsurvey-weekly-meeting-schedule%2F&locale=en_US) to post a comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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