• ByteJunk@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    It should be implemented in people’s brains.

    How this goes, usually, is:

    Them:…before 6PM.

    Me: 6PM… Ours? The server’s? The user’s?

    Them: GMT, of course.

    Me: So that’s 7PM London right now, and changes to 6PM in November?

    Them: What no are you stupid. Always 6PM GMT.

    Me:* jumps off a cliff*

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        4 months ago

        GMT doesn’t have daylight savings, but most people won’t be as precise in language. Here in Germany, we might also tell people “GMT+2”, even though it changes to GMT+1 in winter. Like, I don’t even know what the correct shorthand would be for our timezone…

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      4 months ago

      Reminds me of a LARP I was on one time. A group of people I was doing stuff with ended up always meeting at 10 because we redefined “10” to mean “whenever we all meet”.

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      4 months ago

      Them: GMT, of course.

      Me: So that’s 7PM London right now, and changes to 6PM in November?

      Them: What no are you stupid. Always 6PM GMT.

      Me:* jumps off a cliff*

      Sorry, but are you under the impression that GMT means London time, or that it observes British Summer Time?