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1 PM UTC, for those looking for the one universal time reference.

Providing Central European Time but not UTC/GMT is really weird

Providing any second timezone but not UTC/GMT is really weird. I don't want to have to figure out what other countries are doing with their daylight savings, just give me UTC and I'll know my current offset.

Exactly my thought.

But the real issue is why don't have browsers an integrated way of doing these computations by reading some HTML tags and also providing input widgets to make sure that it is universally readable by machines. Like <datetime ts="1700310507" ref-tz="Europe/Amsterdam" /> (if the event's timezone is Europe/Amsterdam, only for informational purposes)

Yeah... Windows 95 did it, why not the modern web browser?

JavaScript language and browsers have tons of facilities for dealing with date times in sensible ways, including displaying a `Date` object in the local time zone and local preferred formatting.

SpaceX designed their page to display specific time zones for whatever reason.

1700312400 in Unix time ;D

PM? Part milliliter?

Post meridiem.

Milli- is "m" and "M" is mega-. You'll be off by 9 orders of magnitude if you confuse the two.

But keyboard wise, it's just holding down shift vs not holding down shift when typing. The difference in real life between m and M is less than you think :)

Fortnights? Check. Furlongs? Oops.

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