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

[Bill Ricker]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 1:04 PM John Abreau <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.)