We should have a WET timezone

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 pts · 1y (13 replies)

We do.

DecentM@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 1y (8 replies)

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

JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

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

JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Or Universal Time Coordinated

mp3@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 pts · 1y

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 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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

doughless@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Oof. Thanks for the correction!

needanke@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y (3 replies)

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

JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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

needanke@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 pts · 1y

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

themurphy@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Upvoted for the water reference.

EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y

Upvoted for pointing out what made me upvote this post

Nog00d@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Don't forget Western Asia Pacific!

dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Wings and pizza!

xoggy@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y

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

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y

You can get wet in my timezone