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   J.P. Wing (machias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 01:37:04 JST J.P. Wing

   A quickly learned habit when we moved to a non-Eastern time zone in the U.S.: ALWAYS include the time zone in any mentions of time with anyone that is elsewhere in the world. The U.S. is very Eastern Time Zone centric and folks on the East Coast seem to think all mentioned times are always Eastern, even when corresponding with offshores resources in India.

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 01:36:54 JST feld

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     EST5EDT
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     gme / BOFH ?? ?? (gme@bofh.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 01:36:55 JST gme / BOFH ?? ??

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     @machias i never can remember EST vs. EDT so I just usually say Eastern or ET.
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     gme / BOFH ?? ?? (gme@bofh.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 01:37:02 JST gme / BOFH ?? ??

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     @machias Before I retired last year half of my Company was in Central time zone and the other half was Eastern.

     For over 17 years I got in the habit of always including the time-zone when discussing the meeting time for anything with anybody.

     Heading over to Birmingham for a meeting? What time? 9am Central/ 10am Eastern.

     Meeting up for lunch while in Birmingham? 12:30C/ 13:30E.

     What time are you leaving Birmingham to head back to Atlanta? 14:30C/ 15:30E.

     And we all used 24-hour time because yes sometimes we’d have meetings at 21:30 at night if there was a major security incident or breach, etc.

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     J.P. Wing (machias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 01:37:02 JST J.P. Wing

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     @gme Yep, I'm completely in the habit of doing that as well. My OCD flinches when I see "9:00 EST" at this time of year, but I've learned to deal with it :)

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 01:59:19 JST feld

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     the only universal time format that made sense was Swatch Beats but humans really really like relative time. It's just too difficult for people to deal with anything else.
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     gme / BOFH ?? ?? (gme@bofh.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 01:59:20 JST gme / BOFH ?? ??

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     @feld @machias frankly we should just switch to UTC and be done with it.
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     J.P. Wing (machias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 01:59:20 JST J.P. Wing

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     @gme @feld Agree, but the U.S. swings the time around so the clocks have a "pretty" time to make people think they're experiencing longer days. There's no way we could switch to UTC.