Thank you Liz Quilty.
Originally shared by Liz Quilty
Dear Internet,
Stop assuming that everyone is in the USA. This means when you write articles like 'Google Glass is available to everyone today!' - its not, its only available to the USA.
When you do things like 'Its Pi Day!' or 'its Palindrome week!' - again, its not, its only in the USA where the date format is backwards.
When you have a hangout, meeting, or request work online. When somebody asks your time zone, please be specific - 'east coast' is not a timezone, neither is 'Pacific' (I live in the pacific!)
Even saying 'CST' can be anything from -6 to +8 hours since there are multiple time zones using that abbreviation (http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/ )
Yours Sincerely
Annoyed and needing coffee
I know the feeling but then again i only use my local time zone date format and my version of english when conversing to the world with no explanations so i'm just as guilty.
ReplyDeleteAlso we have 12 hour time gap so really what happens over there is functionally irrelevant to us.
And realistically if some one in the USA wanted to follow and participate in a event centred here in perth they would have pretty hard time of it.