Hooray for Eastern Standard Time!

re: Hooray for Eastern Standard Time!

Mike Dimmick — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 01:31:00 GMT

Don't call it GMT - it just confuses us poor Brits (who will happily refer to GMT between April and October, when they should refer to BST, British Summer Time). We normally switch to BST a week before the US switches to daylight savings, but switch back on the same date (although not at the same time!)

Actually a number of problems in UK-developed software arise from the fact that e.g. DateTime.Now and DateTime.UtcNow return the same result for six months of the year. Developers forget that for the other half, they don't.

re: Hooray for Eastern Standard Time!

Evan — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 01:44:00 GMT

Mike - Exactly my point! Sorry to hear it's not just we in the US who are clueless. They should teach this stuff in the schools. :)

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re: Hooray for Eastern Standard Time!

James Hancock — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 07:01:00 GMT

Now if we could just stay on EDT all of the damn time in NA then it wouldn't be dark at 4:30 pm and light at 7 am.... I don't mind going to work in the dark, I do mind getting home in the dark.

Hell I woudl rather the sun came up at 9 am and set at 7 pm than the way we have it now. Then at least I would have time to play outside after work!

re: Hooray for Eastern Standard Time!

Ben Winzenz — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 20:29:00 GMT

LOL! Now take into account those places such as Arizona and Indiana that NEVER switch time. They jump timezones (Eastern Standard time to Central Daylight Time in Indiana). I used to live in Indiana, and while I think it's nice to never have to worry about changing all the clocks in your house, I understand that places such as the airport have nightmares about Daylight Savings.

re: Hooray for Eastern Standard Time!

Sasha Kipervarg — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 23:19:00 GMT

I think you are missing the forest for the trees here. You are probably one of those technically succint folks who celebrated the millenium in 2001 ;)

While you are absolutely correct in your understanding and explanation of the issue, you should probably take into account that the vast majority of people in the US don't take into account the distinctions you make regarding EDT vs EST. Just treat the rest of us like the fools that we are and indulge our ignorance.

re: Hooray for Eastern Standard Time!

Siddharth — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 05:46:00 GMT

So far, this post has been the best in the whole blog ;)

/Siddharth

re: Hooray for Eastern Standard Time!

Bob Riemersma — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:33:00 GMT

Simply amazing how the most trivial small facts escape so many people.

It almost resembles the odd linguistic drift in cliche phrases you hear from people I can only assume are pre-literate or something. Having never shared in our culture through reading, they come up with howlers like "hone in on" when they mean "home in on" and so forth.

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