Kyle, Luke, All:
I want to offer a tip on international meeting scheduling from my
experience in doing that over and over in the W3C. I hope you find this
useful.
I recommend using the Event Time Announcer from
http://Time And
Date.com. What that is is a URI you can send around, and everyone can
access on their own to get the correct time regardless of
daylight/standard time adjustments, etc., etc. So, for your meeting, you
might send this link:
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Vinux+Development+Teleconference&iso=20171006T21&p1=0&ah=1
It's worth keeping a copy of this URI, because it's actually hand
editable. Here's how to edit by hand:
Working from the right edge backwards:
&ah=1 means one hour. If you don't know how long, just leave this off.
If you want to say 90 minutes, you could instead have &am=90 or
&ah=1&am=30
&p1=0 means UTC. Time and Date has codes for all locales on the planet,
e.g. Boston is &p1=43
T21 means 21:00 starting time, which is 24-hour version of 9PM, of
course. UTC is not usually specified in 12-hour format, all professional
use of UTC is 24-hour, e.g. all flights have their "wheels up" times
logged in 24-hour UTC, regardless what runway they've just taken off
from.
Were your meeting starting at 21:30, you would specify T2130
The 8 chars to the left of start time are your 8 char ISO date,
yyyymmdd. Clearly, that's hand editable! <grin>
Lastly, the "msg" data is there so you can personalize your Event Time
Announcement. I've set it up to say "Vinux Development Teleconference,"
but you can say whatever you want there--or just leave it off, should
you prefer.
So, I hope this helps!
Janina
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