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Official times for the IRC meetings

• Free Software Foundation: The IRC meetings are held 12:00-15:00 on both Eastern Standard Time (EST) and Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), unless otherwise noted.

Time zone for the Free Software Foundation office

⚠ Permanent time observation in the United States

Permanent time observation in the United States: State-level legislative actions, see

• The columns:
  • "Legislation for permanent standard time"
  • "Legislation for permanent DST"
• For the states-levels of:
  • Massachusetts
  • New York (The FSF is located in Boston which is the state capital of Massachusetts. The IANA time zone database identifier for Massachusetts is America/New_York.)

Time zone in Massachusetts

Massachusetts: "...According to the text of the bill, the new time wouldn’t go into full effect until 2023, with clocks not rolling back after springing ahead for daylight saving time in March of next year. After that March 2023 spring forward, no more time changes would take place in most of the U.S." - https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/when-does-daylight-saving-time-end-in-massachusetts/2873819/

More reading:

• Time in Massachusetts - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Massachusetts

Permanent time observation in the United States

"Senator Marco Rubio, one of the bill's sponsors, said supporters agreed the change would not take place until November 2023 after input from airlines and broadcasters." - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-approves-bill-that-would-make-daylight-savings-time-permanent-2023-2022-03-15/

More reading:

• Template:IRC_text#Time_zone_for_the_Free_Software_Foundation_office
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_time_observation_in_the_United_States
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Protection_Act

• The FSF is located in Boston which is the state capital of Massachusetts. The IANA time zone database identifier for Massachusetts is America/New_York.

Software

Server-side

LocalSettings.php

• Manual $wgLocaltimezone - MediaWiki - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgLocaltimezone
  • $wgLocaltimezone = "America/New_York";
• Manual $wgLocalTZoffset - MediaWiki - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgLocalTZoffset

Extensions

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimezoneConverter
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimeConvert

Client-side

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words
  • {{LOCALDOW}}, {{LOCALHOUR}}, etc: "The following variables do the same as the preceding ones but using the site's server config or $wgLocaltimezone." (see the LocalSettings.php section
• Manual Timezone - MediaWiki - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Timezone
• Help Extension ParserFunctions - MediaWiki
  • #time - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions##time
  • #timel - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions##timel
    • "This function is identical to ..., when the local parameter is set to true, so it always uses the local time of the wiki (as set in $wgLocaltimezone)."
• Help Time function - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Time_function
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions_-_time:_timezones

Issues

• Free_Software_Directory:Backlog_active#Templates_to_display_EST_or_EDT
• https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Template:TZAbbrev

History

2022

From https://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=Template:Participate_text&oldid=83298

{{IRC text
 |meeting_UTC_start={{#time:U| Friday 16:00 UTC}}
 |meeting_UTC_end={{#time:U| Friday 19:00 UTC}}
 |meeting_is_active={{#expr: {{#time:U| Friday 16:00 UTC}}>{{#time:U|now UTC}} and {{#time:U|now UTC}}>={{#time:U|today 16:00 UTC}} and {{#time:N|now UTC}}={{#time:N| Friday 16:00 UTC}} and {{#time:G|now UTC}}<{{#time:G| Friday 19:00 UTC}} }}
}}

2018

From https://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=Main_Page&action=edit&oldid=53113

{{IRC text
 |day_name_meeting_frequency=each
 |day_name=Friday
 |start_hour_time=12
 |end_hour_time=15
}}

From https://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=Template:IRC_text&oldid=49734

{{{background_color|#fbfcff}}}; border: {{#ifeq: {{LOCALDAYNAME}} | {{{day_name|0}}} | {{#ifexpr: {{{start_hour_time|-1}}} != -1 and {{LOCALHOUR}} >= {{{start_hour_time|0}}} and {{LOCALHOUR}} < {{{end_hour_time|0}}} | green | black}} }}

Our day and time is right now: {{LOCALDAYNAME}} {{LOCALTIME}} {{TZAbbrev}}