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Crap, I was wrong. "S" doesn't stand for "Savings," it stands for "Standard." We really are in EDT. All the more reason to never specify it! :)
by danielweber 11y ago
Crap, I was wrong. "S" doesn't stand for "Savings," it stands for "Standard." We really are in EDT.
All the more reason to never specify it! :)
- joshstrange 11y agoWelcome the world of pain that is timezones and DST... As someone who has had to write an extensive amount of deal with these two concepts they are the worst things ever. We should just abolish timezones, DST, and move to the International Fixed Calendar. Time sucks. I'm even in favor of moving to a seconds-based time unit like kiloseconds, miliseconds, etc instead of minutes/hours/days/weeks/months/years/etc. "Metric Time" if you will...
- DanAndersen 11y ago>We should just abolish timezones, DST, and move to the International Fixed Calendar. You may find these links interesting: - "So you want to abolish time zones" (http://qntm.org/abolish http://qntm.org/abolish) - "You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform" (http://qntm.org/calendar http://qntm.org/calendar)