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0 pointsakira25011y ago0 comments

> A time zone is something like America/New_York

It's US/Eastern. Paul Eggert can call this a "deprecated compatibility time" all he wants, but "Eastern Time Zone" is the official name of the time zone as maintained by the civil time keeping authority.

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michaelcampbell1y ago

If IANA is fine with it, that's fine with me too.

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0 pointsakira25011y ago0 comments

> A time zone is something like America/New_York

It's US/Eastern. Paul Eggert can call this a "deprecated compatibility time" all he wants, but "Eastern Time Zone" is the official name of the time zone as maintained by the civil time keeping authority.

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michaelcampbell1y ago

If IANA is fine with it, that's fine with me too.

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