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now i want to see a map with all timezones called EST but meaning something else in each one
by croisillon 2y ago
now i want to see a map with all timezones called EST but meaning something else in each one
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- 7bit 2y agoWDYM? There is exactly one time zone called EST.
- latexr 2y agoThe “real” EST means “Eastern Standard Time”. The top commenter thought it was “European Standard Time” which could for instance be equivalent to WET (“Western European Time”). What your parent comment is suggesting is a joke to come up with other definitions which would fit EST to other time zones. E.g. MST (“Mountain Standard Time”) could be EST (“Eagle Summer Time”).
- croisillon 2y agothanks for explaining, i meant something like xkcd would do
- simonkagedal 2y agoIt was a total brain fart though – I know what EST is and I know that my time zone is CET; just had some neurons misfiring!
- phatfish 2y agoNot a map, but there is a list of semi-standard time zone abbreviations here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zone_abbreviations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zone_abbreviation... CST and BST are a couple of common ones with overloads. Use the ISO standard for your time stamps guys. I have to work with one API that uses these ambiguous abbreviations in a key time stamp field (faceplam).
- Jeremy1026 2y agoSounds like something Randall from xkcd would cook up.