Re: The best time to start virtual meetings

["Andrew G. Malis" <[e-mail]>]

Eduard,

You need to better calibrate the US attendees. You have all US attendees in
TZ UTC-7, but I'm in UTC-4. You actually need to better calibrate the
attendees from any nation that has more than one time zone.

Cheers,
Andy


On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 2:14 PM Vasilenko Eduard <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi Bosses,
>
> It comes to my mind that it is a mathematical challenge.
>
> I have assumed that the meeting is 6h, sleeping time is 8h.
>
> Then have taken 111 attendees list where the country permits to assume
> time zone (I had to round for big countries – small error is here).
>
> The number of hours that people would not be sleeping has a sharp minimum.
> See attached for details.
>
> Hence, the conclusion: if you want to minimize the overall pain on the
> planet Earth
>
> Then IETF should start at 5 a.m. of UTC.
>
> It is the most convenient time for India where it would be 10:30 local
> time.
>
> The current choice for start is 216% bigger sleeping hours lost. The
> potential worst choice maybe +276%.
>
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>
>
> If the attendee would fill his/her time zone and the middle point of
> his/her typical sleeping period
>
> Then it would be possible to calculate optimal time with seconds accuracy.
>
> Rounding to closes hour probably makes sense.
>
> Time is dependent on demography or registered people.
>
> The last registered (for full cost) may not influence time decision – time
> may be fixed on the demography of early registered.
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> Best Regards
>
> Eduard Vasilenko
>
> Senior Architect
>
> Europe Standardization & Industry Development Department
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> Tel: [phone]
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