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If there's EET for eastern european time and CET for central european time, we should have a WET time. I guess in the shower there already is.

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[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] DecentM@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh my god thank you! I'm forever using wet instead of GMT now

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Completely! Didn't know it existed either till I checked. Much more logical than GMT.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Or Universal Time Coordinated

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair, there's a slight difference between GMT and UTC: GMT becomes BST (in the UK) during summer, while UTC doesn't follow Daylight Saving Time and is tied specifically to the atomic clock.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

GMT doesn't become BST as far as I'm aware, GMT is UTC+0 all year round, and BST is UTC+1 all year round, it's just that in the summer the UK switches from GMT to BST.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

I mean if you specify GMT, one could assume that you need to apply DST during summer, while UTC is garanteed to be static.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Funny enough, it’s actually Universal Coordinated Time (UTC).

[–] doughless@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oof. Thanks for the correction!

[–] needanke@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Love that it is called western european, when only three european countries use it.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's because the other one sees itself as an island in the middle of the Atlantic.

[–] needanke@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My point was supposed to be about the main users of the tine zone being western african countries, yet the name being western eropean time zone.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

OK yes that is indeed odd. Apparently Morocco is aspirationally European.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Upvoted for the water reference.

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Upvoted for pointing out what made me upvote this post

[–] Nog00d@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't forget Western Asia Pacific!

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Wings and pizza!

[–] xoggy@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

Let's get everybody on WET, in fact, let's just call it UTC and be done with time zones.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

You can get wet in my timezone