At about the Unix epoch a wise band once asked, does anybody really know what rime it is? https://youtu.be/ekGWkL0Jh-4
Eric Chadbourne.Consulting > On Nov 22, 2021, at 6:02 PM, John Abreau <abre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 12:52 PM Kent Borg <kentb...@borg.org> 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: abre...@gmail.com / 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 > Discuss@lists.blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
