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Re:UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right? by ithkuil on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @09:07AM (#17187341)
well, technically the "funny" aspect I was talking about, was the things that happened once the meeting room booking has conflicted and two group of people clashed both claiming that their booking was more right (as opposed to "how funny this can happen" in the first place).

It's also interesting that since this doesn't happen frequently enough it's usually hard to develop a good way to get out of it.

Re:UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right? by caf on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @08:27PM (#17193049)
I think I'd resolve it by saying that any bookings made in a timezone that has changed its definition will be cancelled if the new definition causes the booking to conflict with another (including the case where two or more timezones have changed simultaneously: all involved bookings attached to changing timezones are cancelled).

"The timezone you have used to define this booking has been altered, and the booking cannot be updated due to unavailability of the resource XXXX. Please choose a new time for this booking."

Re:UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right? by ithkuil on Thursday May 31, 2018 @09:51AM (#17196274)
yeah, and given that in most times such change is well known in advance, the software could help dealing with it in the least disruptive way!