Brian Inglis wrote:
The URL "+" appears as " " in the search box and vice-versa " " in the search box appears as "+" in the URL.
With that in mind I currently see this at UCLA: 73 "Irish Summer Time" IST 44 "Irish Standard Time" IST 21 "Irish Summer Time" IST site:ie 31 "Irish Standard time" IST site:ie (Note that these numbers differ from yesterday; also, I've now done this so often that Google is starting to throttle my searches, which is slowing me down.) Superficially looking at these numbers, it appears that IST is more likely to mean "Irish Summer Time" outside Ireland and "Irish Standard Time" within Ireland. But when I look at the actual matches I see the pattern I noticed before: many of the hits for the first query are false matches. For its first 5 hits from unique sites, for example: std https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/ist-ireland std https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Ireland std https://www.worldtimeserver.com/time-zones/ist-3/ sum https://www.horlogeparlante.com/time-zone-IST.html sum https://www.sitesworld.com/time/ist-(irish)-to-ist.html whereas when I do the same for the second query, I see: std https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/ist-ireland std http://timebie.com/timezone/irishindia.php std https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Ireland std https://www.worldtimeserver.com/time-zones/ist-3/ std https://www.worlddata.info/timezones/ist-irish-standard-time.php (Here "std" means the web page says "Irish Standard Time", whereas "sum" means it says "Irish Summer Time".) In other words, the query for "Irish Summer Time" has many hits that say "Irish Standard Time", whereas the query for "Irish Standard Time" is hitting just "Irish Standard Time" pages. So I'm still inclined to think that "Irish Standard Time" is significantly more popular in practice.