On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 12:52 PM Kent Borg <[email protected]> wrote: [....]
> (When people post that such-and-such will happen at 4PM EDT on > July-something-th, I always try > to resist the pedantic urge to correct.) [....] Correct what? In July we're using EDT, so 4PM EDT in July is correct already. I gotta say, I didn't expect my original post to open up such a hornet's nest. All I was trying to say is (1) complaining about DST in an announcement for a professional seminar that has nothing to do with timezones seems unprofessional; (2) making up yet another way to refer to timezones (EPT) is counterproductive and only adds to the existing confusion; and (3) using something like "US/Eastern" instead of "EST" and "EDT" unambiguously conveys the correct information without the need to think about DST. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email: [email protected] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
