[Discuss] Abolish DST (was This year's Beowulf Bash is not for the lily-livered)

[Eric Chadbourne]

At about the Unix epoch a wise band once asked, does anybody really know what rime it is?  https://youtu.be/ekGWkL0Jh-4

Eric 

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> On Nov 22, 2021, at 6:02 PM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 12:52 PM Kent Borg <kentborg at 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.
> 
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