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When working at international companies that have little interaction between countries (i.e. not so much that it would be standardized, but enough that it would
by rsstack 4y ago
When working at international companies that have little interaction between countries (i.e. not so much that it would be standardized, but enough that it would be an issue): eventually everyone learns to write dates and times in both ways (14:00 / 2pm, 4/12 / 12 April). The Europeans think that they're translating for the "dumb Americans who can't count higher than 12", the Americans think they're translating for the "quirky Europeans who have to do everything special".
But to your question, yes 12:00 AM is midnight. It's the 12 o'clock that's at/after midnight, while 12:00 PM is the 12 o'clock that at/after noon.
- wil421 4y agoHow often does this actually happen? It’s never been common for my European coworkers or my American ones. I rarely schedule meetings with Europe in the Eastern TZ afternoon and the same with India. If I say I’m deploying at 11pm on Saturday everyone understands.
- rsstack 4y ago"Let's meet at your 4pm Tuesday." "The flights for the off-site land on 4/2 at 3pm local time."
- wil421 4y agoI’m deploying on Friday night at 11:15pm Eastern or 5:15am in the UK.
- rsstack 4y agoWe're discussing time formats. Some Europeans would complain when we'd write "I'm deploying on Friday morning at 10am Eastern or 3pm CET." instead of "15:00 CET"
- wil421 4y agoI would expect whatever format you use and then “translate” it according to my time or date format. As long as the TZ is listed everyone should be fine.
- maydup-nem 4y ago> quirky Europeans who have to do everything special so how many quarter inches are the footegg fields these days?
- Markoff 4y agodon't forget to write Berlin time or Beijing time, so people won't be confused about time zones, since some experts write them in some odd UTC/GMT format with + sign which is complete mess especially with summer/winter time in Europe, while all year same time in China I always write my Chinese colleagues time either in Chinese/Beijing time or Berlin time to clarify what time zone we are talking about, because it's not so obvious since some of them work until midnight or even 1AM local Chinese time
- rsstack 4y agoAnd also surprises of non-unique timezone abbreviations. IST is Irish Standard Time (UTC+0/1), Israel Standard Time (UTC+2/3), and Indian Standard Time (UTC+5:30).