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IRC Meeting

Join the Free Software Foundation (FSF) on {{{meeting_start_day}}} {{{meeting_start_time}}} to {{{meeting_end_time}}} {{{meeting_time_zone}}} time zone for the Free Software Directory IRC meetings, in the #fsf Libera.chat moderated by the FSF staff!

Our day and time is right now: Friday 16:04 Template:TZAbbrev  
Run this terminal program in a GNU/Linux system terminal to see the meeting start time in your time zone:
$ date --date='TZ="America/New_York" 12:00 this Fri'

Regardless of the topic, administrators will verify and approve new software proposed by users, correct existing pages and provide technical assistance publicly in the channel. All users are welcome.

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Documentation

FSF

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

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
• 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

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}}