While I know what you meant in the parent, "numeric timezone" isn't a thing. When it's in a numeric format the correct term is "offset". It cannot be referred to as a timezone as it's timezone will remain constant, but offset may change depending on the time of year (and the impact daylight savings has on the correct offset).

For what it's worth, i too hate when people say things like "EST","CST" etc. Not only are they difficult to remember, but they're ambiguous. i.e. AEST is Australian Eastern Standard Time, but no one includes the A when it's spoken and rarely when its written, which often means when two people over email say "lets talk at 9am EST", hopefully they're on the same continent, or they will miss each other by around ~14 hours.

It is a thing. UTC-5:00, or Z-5, or the specific times 1830Z / 18:30UTC, for some examples.

Also, for the rest of the thread, central time zone is currently observing daylight saving time, so the correct abbreviation is CDT.

Sorry to jump in with such pedantry. Datetime math is hard! :)

Good point! I didn't consider numeric offsets from UTC / Zulu time, but they certainly are valid. Thanks for adding that comment.

Well that's some interesting pedantry, but I think it was fairly clear what they meant, and I was sighing along with them when I had no idea what time the answer actually referred to.

You're too lazy to look up the start time so you ask some one to tell you, then when they tell you, you're too lazy to convert the time zone they used. You're acting like a child. Use Google if it's so damn inconvenient for you.

You're an adult with the Internet right in front of you, act like it.

> Use Google if it's so damn inconvenient for you.

Having to look it up is the inconvenience.

Central time is currently UTC-0500, so right now.

Google "1:30pm CST". It shows it in your local time.

Has anyone written a Chrome plugin that does this yet?

This seems close to what I want: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/local-time-automat...

Yet if we'd just use GMT+/-x nobody would have to look up anything.