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While I know what you meant in the parent, "numeric timezone" isn't a thing. When it's in a numeric format the correct term is "offset". It cannot be referred t
by verelo 10y ago
While I know what you meant in the parent, "numeric timezone" isn't a thing. When it's in a numeric format the correct term is "offset". It cannot be referred to as a timezone as it's timezone will remain constant, but offset may change depending on the time of year (and the impact daylight savings has on the correct offset).
For what it's worth, i too hate when people say things like "EST","CST" etc. Not only are they difficult to remember, but they're ambiguous. i.e. AEST is Australian Eastern Standard Time, but no one includes the A when it's spoken and rarely when its written, which often means when two people over email say "lets talk at 9am EST", hopefully they're on the same continent, or they will miss each other by around ~14 hours.
- aninhumer 10y agoWell that's some interesting pedantry, but I think it was fairly clear what they meant, and I was sighing along with them when I had no idea what time the answer actually referred to.
- spdustin 10y agoIt is a thing. UTC-5:00, or Z-5, or the specific times 1830Z / 18:30UTC, for some examples. Also, for the rest of the thread, central time zone is currently observing daylight saving time, so the correct abbreviation is CDT. Sorry to jump in with such pedantry. Datetime math is hard! :)
- verelo 10y agoGood point! I didn't consider numeric offsets from UTC / Zulu time, but they certainly are valid. Thanks for adding that comment.