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On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 7:59 PM Kurt L Keville <[email protected]> wrote: > Sen Markey is trying to outlaw Daylight Savings Time... a rare bipartisan > issue apparently... > > > https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/sen-ed-markey-pushes-to-end-daylight-savings-springing-forward-and-falling-back/2326601/ > ? > > > ? > > > ________________________________ > From: Bill Ricker <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2021 1:54 PM > To: John Abreau > Cc: Kurt L Keville; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Discuss] This year's Beowulf Bash is not for the lily-livered > > > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 1:04 PM John Abreau <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>> wrote: > "EPT" == Eastern Prevailing Time? Um, nope. > > Who promulgated that? (I gather it's got some uptake in texting circles.) > The correct way to disambiguate it is to say "US/Eastern". > > In the Zoneinfo/Olson universe, that's spelled "America/New_York" > > In the context of a presumed US audience, another correct "whichever is in > effect" abbreviation is "ET". > All of the above presume that the reader has the capability to convert > mechanically without knowing if DST is in effect or not. > Probably true in online communications ... but whether the reader knows > how to use their at-hand capability is a different question. > (Alas specifying UTC-5:00 won't help the latter folks either.) > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
