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
   * 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


For example, if we'd used this schedule in Jan 2023 the times would have been:

%|Location|Time|%
&|UTC|0100 + 1 day|&
&|UK|0100 + 1 day|&
&|Western Europe|0200 + 1 day|&
&|India|0630 + 1 day|&
&|Western Australian|0900 + 1 day|&
&|Eastern Australian|1200 + 1 day (daylight savings)|&
&|New Zealand|1400 + 1 day (daylight savings)|&
&|Western US|1700|&
&|Central US|1900|&
&|Eastern US|2000|&

If that passes the sniff test I'll prepare a schedule for 2023 (and beyond)
   * January Americas
   * February Europe
   * March APAC
and then repeat that throughout the year, adjusting only for daylight savings.
[APN] Looks about as reasonable as possible.