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What pointless little things annoy you? (yiffit.net)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by l_b_i@yiffit.net to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

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I just got invited to a meeting for a time zone that doesn't exist this time of year. In the US EST does not stand for Eastern time, it stands for Eastern Standard Time (~November-~March), EST is not an active time zone, it is EDT Eastern Daylight Time. Its a pointless thing, most people probably don't notice, but its wrong.

Fake internet points to anyone who knows why DB-9 bothers me.

Edit: corrected a missing n in an eastern

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[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Because the connector you think of as DB-9 is ackschually a DE-9 connector. A DB-9 connector would somehow be the width of those 25-pin parallel port connectors, but holding only 9 pins.

D is for D-subminiature
Second letter is the connector housing size (A through E)
The number is the amount of pins.

[–] l_b_i@yiffit.net 6 points 1 month ago

ackschually a DB-9 connector has no meaning as low and high density pin counts are specified for the d-sub series, and db-9 is an impossible combination.