[Discuss] This year's Beowulf Bash is not for the lily-livered

[kkeville at mit.edu (Kurt L Keville)]

Sen Markey is trying to outlaw Daylight Savings Time... a rare bipartisan issue apparently...

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/sen-ed-markey-pushes-to-end-daylight-savings-springing-forward-and-falling-back/2326601/?


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From: Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Discuss] This year's Beowulf Bash is not for the lily-livered



On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 1:04 PM John Abreau <jabr at blu.org<mailto:jabr at blu.org>> wrote:
"EPT" == Eastern Prevailing Time? Um, nope.

Who promulgated that? (I gather it's got some uptake in texting circles.)
The correct way to disambiguate it is to say "US/Eastern".

In the Zoneinfo/Olson universe, that's spelled "America/New_York"

In the context of a presumed US audience, another correct "whichever is in effect" abbreviation is "ET".
All of the above presume that the reader has the capability to convert mechanically without knowing if DST is in effect or not.
Probably true in online communications ... but whether the reader knows how to use their at-hand capability is a different question.
(Alas specifying UTC-5:00 won't help the latter folks either.)