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

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On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 7:59 PM Kurt L Keville <kkeville at mit.edu> wrote:

> Sen Markey is trying to outlaw Daylight Savings Time... a rare bipartisan
> issue apparently...
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> 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>
> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2021 1:54 PM
> To: John Abreau
> Cc: Kurt L Keville; discuss at lists.blu.org
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] This year's Beowulf Bash is not for the lily-livered
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> 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.
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> Who promulgated that? (I gather it's got some uptake in texting circles.)
> The correct way to disambiguate it is to say "US/Eastern".
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> In the Zoneinfo/Olson universe, that's spelled "America/New_York"
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> 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.)
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