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Originally Posted by PhiedPiper
For weekly events, it's actually possible to do another layer of rotations that remains in sync with the monthly rotation as well. And it could all synchronize fairly well to the lunar calendar too I think.
So if the region times are considered as A (morning), B(evening), and C(night), a month could have four weekends of rotating patterns, ie:
1: ABC
2: BCA
3: CAB
4: ABC
Then the next month would start with BCA, and the following month with CAB.
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Just continuing the train of thought from the second page, I think I may have found a way to accomodate for our wacky calendar ;
assuming we are starting with the reference of 12noon eastern time, this makes the Americas have the morning times (9am-12noon or so), Europe the evening times, and Oceania the night times/very early times (the next day). thus the map would start with a proper spread A - B - C.
so the following weekend, everything could be shifted 8 hours, with Americas taking the evening times, Europe the night times, and Oceania the next morning times. B - C - A
the weekend after that, another 8 hours, Americas the night times, Europe the morning times, and Oceania the evening times. C - A - B
then on the final week of the month (in this case it actually bridges one month to the next), it goes back to the way it was at the beginning A - B - C, shifting 16 hours back, so that the people joining in only on a monthly basis can join in the week after that with everything shifted by 8 hours (B - C - A, and C - A - B the next month, and so on).
to keep things synchronized we'll have to pick a weekend "off" for months that have 5 weekends in them... would be about 4 months of the year I figure.
So to clarify, it really makes more sense if we straddle the saturday and sunday of the weekend since the only way to get the whole planet on the same day of the week is in the 3rd case (CAB).
If we start the way I described,
A - B - C should be saturday morning-noon, saturday evening, and the night time of sunday,
B - C - A should be saturday evening, the night time of sunday, and sunday morning-noon, and then
C - A - B would be the night of sunday, sunday morning - noon, and sunday evening.
But since we already planned the first session for the 8th, this would mean that for Oceania, to participate they'd have to get up in the night before their monday morning, so i could see why it would be tricky for them.
Does all this make sense? I still haven't worked out the detail details, those need to be compared against the time zone map
http://www.worldtimezone.com/ , but this is probably the only feasible way to accomodate those able to participate every weekend, and also those who would like to join in every month instead for even large scale events.
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So now it's just a matter of working out the exact times. If I had thought of this earlier, I would have recommended we straddle the 7th and 8th of february, but we can always correct for this the following week for whoever would like to participate every weekend.
Otherwise, the system will still work for the monthly events quite well, depending on what we decide upon.