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Yeah I always feel like a jerk when people open tickets in the summer saying “Please do this at #:## EST” and I have to reply “thanks for providing a time but i
by mason55 7y ago
Yeah I always feel like a jerk when people open tickets in the summer saying “Please do this at #:## EST” and I have to reply “thanks for providing a time but it’s currently EDT in NYC. Is that what you meant?”
- michaelmior 7y agoI hear you. It almost always is what people meant but most of us (myself included) rarely think about the distinction.
- jimktrains2 7y agoI've just gotten to saying ET (or equivalent) all year-round .
- macintux 7y agoThat’s the battle I fight: persuading people that saying “Eastern” is accurate and sufficiently precise. Precise and inaccurate is a bad combination.
- lopmotr 7y agoThat's only slightly worse than how I feel when people say that something's happening in the summer when it's actually winter where I live.
- wil421 7y agoNo reason to be snarky with people. They mean whatever time it currently is or will be.
- heavenlyblue 7y agoAre you sure though? If they copied that date from some automated system it might as well be any of these. Humans usually say “New York time”.
- eridius 7y agoIn my experience, humans never say "New York time", or "San Francisco time", or anything like that, they say "EST" and "PST" regardless of whether daylight saving's is on. I'm guilty of this too, since I can never remember which part of the year constitutes "on" and which is "off", only where the boundaries are. If I stop and think I can usually remember "spring ahead is turning it on", but never off the top of my head.