TimeZone Bug

April 9, 2001 1:41 PM

MetaFilter from the future. Says up at the top there (and on this post) that it's 1:41 PM PST. Not for another hour, I think. It is, however, 1:41 PM PDT.
posted by jimw to Bugs at 1:41 PM (9 comments total)

attack of the grammar police!

Ok, I'll change it. I always think of Pacific Standard Time as being universal for the entire year, but I suppose it's Pacific Daylight Time at least six months of the year (or is PDT considered all year?).
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:44 PM on April 9, 2001

PDT is only in effect while the clocks are Sprung Forward.
posted by anildash at 2:27 PM on April 9, 2001

MetaStandardTime can be whatever you want.
posted by ParisParamus at 3:04 PM on April 9, 2001

Why can't we have MeFi time in Swatch beats? That'd be cool!
posted by bradlands at 3:55 PM on April 9, 2001

No, Brad, that would not be cool. That would be scary. Have my lessons about trusting the Swiss been falling on deaf ears?

What about a MeFi sundial?
posted by anildash at 9:04 PM on April 9, 2001

Just change it to say "Pacific."
posted by kindall at 4:36 AM on April 10, 2001

"Specific"
posted by rodii at 11:22 AM on April 10, 2001

yeah, yeah, picky, picky. i just noticed it because metafilter kept showing up at the top of my bookmarks list with an updated time in the future.
posted by jimw at 11:00 PM on April 10, 2001

UTC. Like what the BBC World Service uses. (And I bet that must fuck the heads of the British staff during the summer.)
posted by holgate at 7:47 PM on April 11, 2001