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by jsw 1552 days ago
I wish “Prevailing Time” would catch on. Eg PPT
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mehrdada 1552 days ago
It’s just PT: Pacific Time.
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nfw2 1552 days ago
I usually write out Pacific Time out of concern that not everyone would immediately recognize PT as an acronym. Most scheduling systems use the full acronym.
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rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1552 days ago
What you're talking about is just "PT", but I usually just write out the word "Pacific".
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pflanze 1551 days ago
I think this might be ambiguous, since "Pacific/$city" refers to a part of the world that the west of the US ("PT") is not part of.

I've decided to add "Pacific Time" to my "dateparse"[1] script, though.

    $ TZ=America/Chicago dateparse '6:30 PM Pacific time'
    6:30 PM Pacific time: assuming PDT
    1647480600  Wed Mar 16 20:30:00 CDT 2022
[1] https://github.com/pflanze/chj-bin/blob/master/dateparse
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