Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. When you write the time, pm PT, would that be considered incorrect because it is not specific enough? My understanding, and the way things are typically named at least in the context of computing I'm a programmer by trade , has always been the following:. This is all oversimplified, as daylight savings rules are different in different cities and countries. With that in mind, another way of viewing it is:.
Usually, then, when talking to humans as opposed to computers you'd use PT or, colloquially, PST, even though it's arguably incorrect to mean "whatever time it is in Pacific Time in whatever location we're talking about". Mountain Time, for example, is slightly more complicated than Pacific Time because it covers a larger area with more diverse daylight savings rules e.
Talking to a human you'll be fine saying "Pacific Time", "PT", or "PST" which, again, has come to be interchangeable with "PT" although purists like myself believe otherwise :.
I believe the use of "PST" to mean "Pacific Time" has become so common in language that it's pretty much "official". To avoid ambiguity or confusion it's best to follow established practice when specifying a time.
Using PST to mean "the current time in the Pacific zone" is wrong since it not only conflates a time zone with a time, but also implicitly makes "PDT" and "PST" synonyms for nearly half of the year.
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