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monsieuricon

K. Ryabitsev

Welcome back to the time of year when my OCD is triggered every time someone tries to schedule a meeting with me in "EST."
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monsieuricon

K. Ryabitsev

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Like this post if you start your message back with "assuming you mean EDT..."
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Yuki@groupe-tazor.com

Hazuki Yuki 葉月膤 ❄️ 🏳️‍⚧️

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@monsieuricon@social.kernel.org idk, it kind of works if you consider EDT could also considered "standard time", so "EST" is a valid synonym of "whatever time we're on in the Eastern time zone", but it brings out the problem to disambiguate "EST" as not EDT and "EST" as the time zone in general, which can be solved as the fact EDT is only used on known dates, and the fact you can use "GMT-4" and "GMT-5" to unambiguously tell time

anyway I always get EST and EDT confused so this works for me

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monsieuricon

K. Ryabitsev

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@Yuki I just use "Eastern" or "Pacific" or whatnot. "Let's meet around 1PM Pacific" -- is unambiguous and not that much longer to type. :)
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mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info

Michael K Johnson

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@monsieuricon @Yuki I never remember EST vs. EDT so I just use the TZ name and write US/Eastern

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labbott@hachyderm.io

Laura Abbott

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@monsieuricon This is one of my pet peeves tbh. If there is genuine confusion over EST vs EDT (which there can be! Especially in this weird gap with Europe!) then go ahead and ask but I'm very tired of seeing people treat this like an "you used 'there' instead of 'their', I am very smart at grammar" moment

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monsieuricon

K. Ryabitsev

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@labbott well, no, I don't actually write that (I don't intentionally try to be a jerk to people :)). I just quietly suffer.
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Anarcat@kolektiva.social

anarcat

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@monsieuricon @monsieuricon would you have prefered "UTC-5"? :P

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monsieuricon

K. Ryabitsev

Reply to @Anarcat@kolektiva.social
@Anarcat That's only for people who write "OCD" as "CDO" (because that way the letters are in alphabetical order).
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Anarcat@kolektiva.social

anarcat

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@monsieuricon i had fun with the "EST5EDT" "zone" in the past, i don't think i'll ever get past that trauma... and it's probably a footgun i've left in undertime(1) still...

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labbott@hachyderm.io

Laura Abbott

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@monsieuricon people who quietly suffer when others are wrong on the internet make the world go round

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