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

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Its a pointless thing

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But no, it's not a pointless thing. Because people will say that something occurs in one particular time zone, and I'll convert it under that assumption. Only for them to then turn around and blame me for being an hour late because they said standard time when they meant daylight time. Time communications should always be done in UTC first, with other time zones giving as optional extras, specified in terms of their UTC offset explicitly, alongside their name.

[–] l_b_i@yiffit.net 2 points 3 months ago

The important thing is the time gets communicated, and in the US outside states that don't observe daylight saving time, I just assume the vernacular time for that zone.