I just got invited to a meeting for a time zone that doesn’t exist this time of year. In the US EST does not stand for Eastern time, it stands for Eastern Standard Time (~November-~March), EST is not an active time zone, it is EDT Eastern Daylight Time. Its a pointless thing, most people probably don’t notice, but its wrong.

Fake internet points to anyone who knows why DB-9 bothers me.

Edit: corrected a missing n in an eastern

  • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    that’s normal in the US to omit

    Yeah, I know. And it bothers me. It sounds so incredibly wrong.

    People do that?!

    Yeah, Americans seem to mostly pronounce it “sodder”. Which is weird, considering they’re more likely than the rest of the English-speaking world to pronounce words like “calm” and “balm” with the l, where for us it’s more like “cahm” or “bahm”.