Proposal: USians stop using “PST” and “EST” and start saying “UTC-8” and “UTC-5” so I can work out what actual damn time you mean in my head.
Alternately, list local and UTC?
Also it’d be great if you didn’t use “summer” and “winter” as an approximate date. Sincerely, the other hemisphere.
like given *we* don’t use (mathematically-correct) YYYYMMDD I’m willing to cut you some slack on MMDDYYYY but this is where I draw the line.
@ticky I buy into all of this except that I really must insist we enforce YYYYMMDD for all dates not written as textual (we can disagree on 7 April, 2017 and April 7, 2017, but we should always use 2017-04-07). Then we can all play better. /metadata librarian moment
@ruth I mean I do agree on principle but date order is slightly easier to determine from context than a time zone abbreviation
@ruth for sure. sensible formatting for all things!
@ticky it's true, I've just decided that if one leans into this, my misery index can be so greatly reduced, y'know?