fixed time links [was] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fourth Geodata meeting + biweekly summary

[Chris Holmes]

Jo Walsh wrote:
> dear all, 
> 
> Yesterday's meeting was a bit staggered; it's been surprising hard to
> keep the fixed-time links on the wiki correct during daylight savings
> changes and meeting time changes.

A note for everyone who posts times, if you're posting for a weekly 
meeting, the best thing to do is to just use UTC, and post a time where 
everyone syncs against that.

You can do this by just setting only the time fields in the fixedtime url:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=8&min=0&sec=0

When the other values are left blank, they will default to the current 
day.  So when daylight savings time hits, you can continue to check the 
same link, and it will give you the correct time.  The problem was that 
most of the times were also hinged to a date, so when time changes hit 
they didn't update appropriately.  Leaving off the date will make it so 
the times update for the section of the world you're in.  So with this 
method you should be able to just post the meeting time once, instead of 
updating week after week.


hope this helps,

Chris
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