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Re: Meeting Pain Calculator

Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca> Mon, 04 May 2020 21:17 UTC

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Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
    > Or, re-create it to reflect the time zones you care about.

    > The timezones in Mark and Rich's spreadsheets presumably reflect the
    > IAB, I presume. When I'm doing this for the RSSAC (which has members on

They can be edited if you make a copy, and then you can put in your own
selection of time zones.

    > the US east coast, US west coast, Amsterdam, Stockholm, and Tokyo) or
    > for ITU FG QIT4N (which has participants in China, US west coast, US
    > east coast, Berlin, and Geneva), I go to the meeting planner at
    > timeanddate.com and enter the relevant cities. What I'm trying to
    > achieve is usually a time during which nobody has to be awake between

Yes, but as we move toward people in more time zones, that's not always
possible.  The point of this tool isn't, I think, to find a single time that
is best, but rather, to share the pain.

    > midnight and 6:00 AM local time. I usually wind up looking in the
    > vicinity of 13:00 or 14:00 UTC. It gets difficult when I need to also
    > include Australia or New Zealand.

Exactly.

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