[jackson1442]

> I cringe every time someone send me an email that says "I can meet at 10 PST" no matter what time of the year it is.

Why? An average person (read: non-developer) rarely needs to think about their timezone, save for when it changes. As a human, it seems relatively straightforward to intuitively determine whether that person is in DST or not.

If you were a UNIX machine (or a developer providing input to one such machine, I guess), it might be more appropriate to ask for a response in the Americas/Chicago format or something like UTC-0600, but it seems rather coarse to require that everyone adhere to your personal timezone standards when interacting with you.

Personally, I frequently schedule meetings with clients all over the US where their timezone isn't necessarily clear to me, so I usually just say something along the lines of "1045am CT," omitting the S/D in its entirety.

[jacobsenscott]

I cringe because I've dealt with so many timezone bugs, because it is notoriously hard to get right. So it is just sort of a PTSD reaction. Of course I know what they mean, I just cringe to myself.

[Dylan16807]

> As a human, it seems relatively straightforward to intuitively determine whether that person is in DST or not.

But you don't know if someone used a calculator and invoked actual PST during the summer.

> I usually just say something along the lines of "1045am CT," omitting the S/D in its entirety.

Good.

[exporectomy]

It may have to do with the appearance of arrogance in incorrectly using a term they don't understand instead of a simpler term they do.