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by donalhunt 1106 days ago
I mostly struggle with Irish Standard Time (used for DST in Ireland) and Indian Standard Time which have the same acronym. :(

Thankfully, I learnt a long time ago to use ISO 8601 and UTC for dates and times. I still revert to PST/PDT if my audience is primarily left coast based.

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And I can't say it's ever actually caused a problem, but something about Indian Standard Time being a half-hour offset from UTC has always bothered me so much... But now we're fully off-topic.
Oh, hold on to something, while I tell you about Chatham Islands.
> I mostly struggle with Irish Standard Time (used for DST in Ireland) and Indian Standard Time which have the same acronym. :(

Heh. After the first few instance of confusion, we switched to saying Bangalore time and Dublin time.

Left coast? That's a term I've never heard of.