On 2020/04/20 21:45, Thomas Goirand wrote: > When talking about the south hemisphere, I always found it confusing to > talk about summer and winter... What your recommendation? Only use month > names?
Well, I live in the Southern hemisphere. It's winter here from June until the end of August. Don't you think it would be confusing to many people in the world if I used terms like "during this winter" in reports? In a global community, it's better to avoid regional terms to describe a period of time, even if that covers a very large region or percentage of contributors. Otherwise it's possible to cause some confusion or to make some percentage of people feel less included. And I 100% understand that it wouldn't be intentional because that's just how people tend to talk (especially in the US and in Europe), but I do tend to think that months is just better all round. Some people like to talk about quarters (where Q1 could be Jan-March etc), but again some people count quarters based on when financial years start in their country (some companies I work for start Q1 in March) so I'd even avoid that and stick with months since that's the same everywhere. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) <jcc> ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.