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Re:Timezone Bullshit by kelnos on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:26PM (#26095653)
I (living in California) usually use "PST8PDT", which does what I want, all year round (for some irrational reason I refuse to claim that I live in Los_Angeles[0]). I believe there's also "EST5EDT", "CST6CDT", and "MST7MDT" as well.

But agree that this is just a grab bag of confusing garbage.

[0] I suppose if CA does away with DST (or keeps it permanently), I will have to change...

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Re:Timezone Bullshit by boulos on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @07:15PM (#26096638)
Huh, your LA note prompted me to say “That’s why I use US/Pacific”. But someone on the internet tells me I’ve been doing it wrong and US/Pacific has been deprecated for years / I’m not supposed to:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4309030/difference-betwe...

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