On Sep 23, 2026, at 12:18 PM, Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Officially it's short for just "Pacific Time", But not *shortest* for Pacific Time, which would be just PT, but I guess that could be interpreted as "Pacific Time as adjusted for daylight saving time" (I think two-letter abbreviations have been used in in print in the US, for example a TV show starting at "9 ET, 8 CT"). But is that "PaCific Time" or "PacifiC Time"? > I also understand that PCT was inspired by the phrase "Pacific Coast Time", > your first guess. Hey, if the Sunshine Protection Act passes and is signed into law, you could drive down the PCH in PCT. (I'm a bit further from the PCH than you are; I think it's just SR1 or Highway 1 up here.) (Well, at least as I read the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025 - https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/139/text - Pacific Time/Pacific Standard Time just becomes UTC-07:00 all year around, so we won't call it PCT, I guess it's PDT all year around. Damn. I *like* PCT, although, to be fair, not everybody's close to the coast.)
