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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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