Well this is a bit embarrassing, actually.
I typically have tried to work by and adhere to UTC since the early 80’s, when almost everything we did at work included that and the use of Julian dates.
The earlier mix up on my part was due to not paying attention when converting UTC +2 into my own timezone (PST, UTC -8) instead of seeing it posted as (I think) CET.
Whenever I myself schedule events I’ll usually give two references. Often, the first, in my local timezone, but then the second in UTC itself with no offset.
It’s easy for me to see UTC (what we used to call Zulu back when I worked for the DoD) and know what time it is or will be where I am at, but when someone posts their schedules in UTC AND their offset… Well for some reason I start thinking about international datelines and whether or not I need to consider adjusting once or twice for daylight savings time, and… Bottom line, it was my mistake and I should have just looked it up at time&date’s website if I had confused myself.
I think a lot of this confusion started for me when I had an associate office in Melbourne in the early 2000’s - daylight savings time changes not coinciding in the same date affected scheduling 4x each year and I would usually end my afternoons knowing that it was already tomorrow around lunchtime there.
That was when I got lazy and began to depend upon desktop widgets, instead of my brain, showing me a graphical analog clock representation of what time it was in Los Angeles, London, and Melbourne.
Thank you for the concerns and especially the consideration offered for accommodating my silly lapse in reasoning though, it is much appreciated
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