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Omg, please Amazon, switch to UTC for timestamps.

It is 3AM in Germany, and I'm tired and I don't want to know what PDT is.

I'm surprised these sites don't show a localised time with UTC next to it, even the popular statuspage.io doesn't do this, blows my mind.

The other day Zoom posted a status update that listed the time in both CEST, and PST... How did they get daylight saving time right for one and not the other? PST isn't a thing for another few months yet...

Maybe a European thought that Americans also use "S" for "Summer" rather than "Standard"?

And Google too. It makes me wonder who is their audience when they only use USA timezone while their customers are worldwide.

Google is a bit ... more interesting case, at least known. Namely they fucked up early in history by using local timezone, and when it started biting them it proved cheaper and easier to use that as the one global timezone rather than make everything base on UTC. Since then I heard it referenced as Mountain View Time.

OTOH, they could add translation on website for it...

My "new tab page" in chrome shows me clock for Mountain View, Zurich (local time for me), and a few other relevant ones. Very useful when working accross multiple time zones.

Annoys me too that a lot of tech companies are reporting in local timezones North American timezones.

Whilst in hotel quarantine I hacked a webapp together to show timezones around the world.

I did it glance at my remote colleagues local time.

https://localtime.app/

I hope you learnt something while doing that, but I present you https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

I doscvered the joy of world time buddy when working on a team that had members in India, UK, Canada, New York and Australia.

Looks nice. Perhaps not the most friendly thing on mobile.

Reminds me of the meeting planner by timeanddate.com (which I use a lot of)

Here's a great website: https://everytimezone.com/.

I am sorry I laughed so hard. Frankfurt in PDT.

There actually is a frankfort in PDT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfort,_Washington . Don't think amazon has a datacenter there though.

Only two residents!

that can be done to look great on a webpage https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/clocks-showing-the-loca...

Why? Every single time I look on a map, the American continent is in the centre. It only makes sense to use PDT as the only correct timezone. /s

I know you're being sarcastic, but funny how "localization" affects our perceived reality, looking it up there are also China-centric maps[1], so most Chinese students probably think all world maps are like that.

AFAIK most maps I've seen have the longitude 180 degrees West at the left edge, and 180 degrees East on the right.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-our-world-map-made-to-look-li...

holy shit

I weren't aware of that

It's weird af that I've never saw map where America/Asia is in the center

It's also rare to see maps where south is at the top, but that's also an arbitrary decision. North isn't "up" any more than south is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South-up_map_orientation

This is giving me serious headache.

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