Mar 2023 Tcl Meetup notes

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Tcl meetup 2023-03-14 (Tuesday 14th March 2023 0800 UTC)

** topics **
   * an update on the unicode discussions from last month
   * the path to Tcl 9.0
   * a fixed rotating schedule for these meetings. Europe, Americas and Asia/Pacific - any two of three each month.
   * ???
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'''[stevel] - 2023-03-14 05:57:57'''

Re the fixed rotating schedule, I'd appreciate some input on the following:
   * there would be 3 zones - Americas / Europe / Asia-Pacific   ** generally we can cover 2 zones per month
   *** Americas evening would cover APAC day
   *** Europe evening would cover Americas day
   *** APAC evening would cover Europe day
   * the meeting will be scheduled for the 2nd Tuesday of each month
   ** what would be a suitable time to start?
   ** 8pm in the evening in the zone?
   *** in the Americas zone that would be 8pm US East coast
   *** in the European zone that would be 8pm Western Europe
   *** in the APAC zone that would be 8pm Australia East coast


This means the times (before adjusting for daylight saving time) will be:

%|Location|Americas|Europe|APAC|%
&|UTC|0100 + 1 day|1900|1000|&
&|UK|0100 + 1 day|1900|1000|&
&|Western Europe|0200 + 1 day|'''2000'''|1100|&
&|India|0630 + 1 day|0030 + 1 day|1530|&
&|Western Australian|0900 + 1 day|0300 + 1 day|1800|&
&|Eastern Australian|1100 + 1 day|0500 + 1 day|'''2000'''|&
&|New Zealand|1300 + 1 day|0700 + 1 day|2200|&
&|Western US|1700|1100|0200|&
&|Central US|1900|1300|0400|&
&|Eastern US|'''2000'''|1400|0500|&
with adjustment for daylight saving time (i.e. the 2000 stays but other zones are adjusted if they are not on DST).

If that passes the sniff test I'll prepare a schedule for 2023 (and beyond)
   * January Americas
   * February Europe
   * March APACand then  * April Amepericats
 th  * Maty thEuroughoutpe
 th  * June APAC
   * July Amear, icadjs
   * Augusting Euronlype
 fo  * September daylighAPAC
   * October savAmeringcas.
   * November Europe
   * December APAC

[APN] Looks about as reasonable as possible.