On 2020-04-20 21:45:27 +0200 (+0200), Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 4/20/20 4:19 PM, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: > > Em 18/04/2020 15:38, Sam Hartman escreveu: > > > Tl;DR: This is a summary of discussion held during the summer and fall > > > of 2019 surrounding Git packaging in Debian. > > > > I would like to remember we are not a north hemisphere community, so, > > please, don't say "summer and fall" because here on the south, it's not > > the same from you :-) > > When talking about the south hemisphere, I always found it confusing to > talk about summer and winter... What your recommendation? Only use month > names? He could also have phrased it "latter half of 2019," or "2019 third and fourth quarters," or even simply "last year" (the topic at hand didn't *really* warrant any more specific time frame than that to begin with). This is a which habit of I've needed to cure myself in recent decades too, so I totally empathize. It's hard to remember to avoid referring to global events relative to the seasons in which I experienced them, and that for others on the planet it was not the same seasons they were experiencing. These days, I have my editor treat names of seasons as a red flag when I'm reviewing what I've written, so that I hopefully don't forget. -- Jeremy Stanley
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