I agree. And note that in many languages, two offsets are not "standard" and "whatever", they are is "summer" and "winter". ("Standard" is a misnomer anyway, when more than half the time it isn't that offset.) Mark On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 11:37 AM Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au> wrote:
Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 17:19:22 -0700 From: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> Message-ID: <C6840C54-C178-497A-A254-CB736D983542@alum.mit.edu>
| On May 31, 2019, at 3:49 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: | | > On the contrary, IEEE Std 1003.1-1998 requires support for so-called "negative DST", | | Can we promote the term "Daylight Shifting Time"?
It would be more consistent with other such acronyms, and easier to read, if it were "Shifted Daylight Time" (cf: ISO, UTC, ...)
But even better, just call it "the time" and be done with it. Having two names (standard and **whatever**) implies that only two are possible (and leads to the dumb assumptions that people tend to make).
When we need to refer to a specific time in a specific place, on a specific date, we need all of that information to do it properly. Allowing anyone to believe otherwise, ever, is to do them a great disservice, even if in particular cases some of it ends up being implied by other parts.
kre