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by hopeless 2851 days ago
yeah, I've had Americans say 6AM EST during the summer when it's EDT
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I'm an American on Eastern time and I work pretty routinely with people in other US time zones. I get this pretty much all the time. I think people think that putting the "Standard" in makes it sound more "official".
For Europeans that would be logical, since the S stands for summer here, like CET and CEST.
There is very little understanding in the US that "Daylight" time stops being "Standard" time. (because why should it? why have two/three time zones when you only need one?)
This error can be sidestepped by stating "Eastern".
Problem is that there aren't any widely-accepted acronyms for time zones in the United States that don't include the current daylight savings time status. Eastern is way longer than EDT.
7 PM ET [1]

6 PM CT

5 PM MT

4 PM PT

? :)

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%227+pm+ET%22