▲ 718 ▼ Hey Canada, just wanted to let you know there's alternatives. (thelemmy.club) submitted 3 days ago by abbadon420@sh.itjust.works to c/memes@lemmy.world 149 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 child) Why call it anything? UTC-7 or -8 are explicit, less confusing internationally & shorter permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children) Because UTC-7 and UTC-8 are also wrong. The label "Pacific Time" means, in the United States and Mexico, the civil time standard that observes standard time at UTC-8 and daylight saving time at UTC-7. You cannot call this standard merely "UTC-8" because then it's wrong half of the year. It is important to note that by calling year-round UTC-7 "Pacific Time", British Columbia and Yukon are the ones stepping out of the programme to do something idiosyncratic. The rest of the Pacific Time Zone (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Baja California) has a greater population than the entirety of Canada. There are approximately 56 million residents of the non-Canadian portion of the Pacific Time Zone, where standard time is UTC-8, compared to 5 million in the Canadian portion, which is UTC-7. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 day ago* No that's what I mean, once you have a fixed timezone there is no need for naming that timezone anything at all, it can be referred to by its UTC offset It's something that regularly gets under my skin when people announce events like this: Instead of all of this, a single UTC offset would be so much clearer permalink fedilink source parent [–] teslekova@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 days ago Looks like it had the desired effect of pissing off US people. 😄 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children) Because UTC-7 and UTC-8 are also wrong. The label "Pacific Time" means, in the United States and Mexico, the civil time standard that observes standard time at UTC-8 and daylight saving time at UTC-7. You cannot call this standard merely "UTC-8" because then it's wrong half of the year. It is important to note that by calling year-round UTC-7 "Pacific Time", British Columbia and Yukon are the ones stepping out of the programme to do something idiosyncratic. The rest of the Pacific Time Zone (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Baja California) has a greater population than the entirety of Canada. There are approximately 56 million residents of the non-Canadian portion of the Pacific Time Zone, where standard time is UTC-8, compared to 5 million in the Canadian portion, which is UTC-7. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 day ago* No that's what I mean, once you have a fixed timezone there is no need for naming that timezone anything at all, it can be referred to by its UTC offset It's something that regularly gets under my skin when people announce events like this: Instead of all of this, a single UTC offset would be so much clearer permalink fedilink source parent [–] teslekova@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 days ago Looks like it had the desired effect of pissing off US people. 😄 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 day ago* No that's what I mean, once you have a fixed timezone there is no need for naming that timezone anything at all, it can be referred to by its UTC offset It's something that regularly gets under my skin when people announce events like this: Instead of all of this, a single UTC offset would be so much clearer permalink fedilink source parent
[–] teslekova@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 days ago Looks like it had the desired effect of pissing off US people. 😄 permalink fedilink source parent
