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Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by mason55 on Friday June 28, 2019 @07:04PM (#20309540)
Yeah I always feel like a jerk when people open tickets in the summer saying “Please do this at #:## EST” and I have to reply “thanks for providing a time but it’s currently EDT in NYC. Is that what you meant?”
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Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by wil421 on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:48PM (#20310496)
No reason to be snarky with people. They mean whatever time it currently is or will be.
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Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by heavenlyblue on Saturday June 29, 2019 @08:51AM (#20312293)
Are you sure though?

If they copied that date from some automated system it might as well be any of these.

Humans usually say “New York time”.

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Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by eridius on Sunday June 30, 2019 @01:50AM (#20316589)
In my experience, humans never say "New York time", or "San Francisco time", or anything like that, they say "EST" and "PST" regardless of whether daylight saving's is on.

I'm guilty of this too, since I can never remember which part of the year constitutes "on" and which is "off", only where the boundaries are. If I stop and think I can usually remember "spring ahead is turning it on", but never off the top of my head.

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Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by lopmotr on Saturday June 29, 2019 @04:03AM (#20311391)
That's only slightly worse than how I feel when people say that something's happening in the summer when it's actually winter where I live.
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Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by michaelmior on Friday June 28, 2019 @08:17PM (#20309940)
I hear you. It almost always is what people meant but most of us (myself included) rarely think about the distinction.
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Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by jimktrains2 on Friday June 28, 2019 @09:00PM (#20310102)
I've just gotten to saying ET (or equivalent) all year-round .
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Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by macintux on Friday June 28, 2019 @09:13PM (#20310159)
That’s the battle I fight: persuading people that saying “Eastern” is accurate and sufficiently precise. Precise and inaccurate is a bad combination.
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