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CDT, EDT, PST? I have no idea what this means. Please don't use time zone abbreviations. They are neither human- nor machine-readable.
by jwilk 8y ago
CDT, EDT, PST? I have no idea what this means.
Please don't use time zone abbreviations. They are neither human- nor machine-readable.
- piracy1 8y agoCentral Daylight Time, Eastern Daylight Time, Pacific Standard Time.
- jwilk 8y agoThese names are still meaningless outside USA.
- rstrstrst 8y agoDid the EU already ban Google?
- thomasfoster96 8y agoIf you search for ‘CDT’ in Australia it will give you results for Australian Central Daylight Time, for example.
- technion 8y agoAustralians have an Eastern Daylight Time is probably not what is being referred so. I'm assuming other countries do too.
- joshschreuder 8y agoIt’s typically referred to as AEDST though
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- thomasfoster96 8y agoOnly during daylight savings time, otherwise it’s AEST or less commonly AEDT. Or even EST.
- dmos62 8y agoI'm happy EU is at least getting rid of daylight time saving.
- gadrev 8y agoWe'll see. For example, Portugal has already said they will keep DST despite what EU decides. They already tried removing DST in the 90s and most people there disliked it.
- mchannon 8y agoOver half the HN readership lives in areas where these abbreviations are human-readable. And 100% can google the abbreviations. Would it be better if we started using UTC+5, etc.? Sure. But good luck getting Americans to change. If the OP's European counterpart posted a time in "CET" I'd have to go look it up, and I'd be fine doing that if it was important to me, rather than pointing the finger and crying Eurocentrism. What I did find objectionable about the times, though, was the lack of "AM" or "PM". In the US, 3:00 might be in the morning or the afternoon, and the context does not make it clear which is intended.
- mirages 8y agoNever heard about CET before you mentionned it and I'm european