US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by jsw on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:52PM (#30690565)

I wish “Prevailing Time” would catch on. Eg PPT

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by mehrdada on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:09PM (#30690852)

It’s just PT: Pacific Time.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by nfw2 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:21PM (#30691030)

I usually write out Pacific Time out of concern that not everyone would immediately recognize PT as an acronym. Most scheduling systems use the full acronym.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:28PM (#30691155)

What you're talking about is just "PT", but I usually just write out the word "Pacific".

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by pflanze on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @11:57AM (#30700415)

I think this might be ambiguous, since "Pacific/$city" refers to a part of the world that the west of the US ("PT") is not part of.

I've decided to add "Pacific Time" to my "dateparse"[1] script, though.

    $ TZ=America/Chicago dateparse '6:30 PM Pacific time'
    6:30 PM Pacific time: assuming PDT
    1647480600  Wed Mar 16 20:30:00 CDT 2022

[1] https://github.com/pflanze/chj-bin/blob/master/dateparse

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