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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

GMT doesn't have daylight savings, but most people won't be as precise in language. Here in Germany, we might also tell people "GMT+2", even though it changes to GMT+1 in winter. Like, I don't even know what the correct shorthand would be for our timezone...

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago

That is why lots of time zone selectors allow you to select "Europe/Berlin": then it is clear that depending on the time of year this is UTC+1 or UTC+2.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I use TZ identifiers, and confirm the expected behaviour ("Berlin time, correct?"), as then I know how I should handle DST changes.