Docs: CET/CEST timezone for community call time is confusing for contributors outside Central Europe

[HarshvardhanPrajapati]

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Documentation/Contributing

Abstract

The documentation currently mentions:

Community calls are held on Wednesdays at 3PM CET/CEST.

This can be confusing for contributors outside Central Europe who must manually convert the time to their local timezone.

Proposal:
Automatically detect the user’s local timezone and show the equivalent local time next to the CET/CEST time. Optionally, provide a manual override for edge cases.

Example:

Community calls are held on Wednesdays at 3PM CET/CEST — Your local time: Wednesday, 6:30PM Asia/Kolkata

This change will improve accessibility for contributors worldwide and remove the need for manual time conversion.

Pull request

I haven’t started coding yet — opening this issue first to confirm maintainers are okay with this enhancement. Once approved, I will implement it as a small JS addition to the docs.

[abhishekbapna51]

Hi, I’d like to work on this issue! I can implement the timezone auto-detection using JavaScript and update the relevant docs page. Please assign it to me.

[abhishekbapna51]

Hi, I’ve implemented this feature and opened PR #16236. It auto-detects the user’s timezone (using Europe/Zurich + Intl) and displays the local equivalent of the community call time.

[HarshvardhanPrajapati]

@abhishekbapna51 I checked the PR and i can see your code failed 11 checks. Can you please look into that to ensure the code follows the structure set by the repo so it can be easily merged

[cameel]

Honestly, this sounds like an overengineered solution to something dead simple. I think you have a point in that people outside of this timezone will likely have to look it up, but implementing an automatic detection and conversion into what should be a static page is an overkill. We really don't want to maintain an extra dynamic JS element just for this. IMO we have too much JS in the docs as it is and I'd rather remove some than add more.

Simple is better: let's change it to UTC.

[HarshvardhanPrajapati]

That makes sense. I agree that a simple, static solution is better. How about we update the text to: "Community calls are held on Wednesdays at 3 PM CET (2 PM UTC) or 3 PM CEST (1 PM UTC), depending on the time of year."
This clarifies the time for everyone without adding any extra JS element.