Styleguide needs to think more international in terms of time zones

[glennawatson]

https://reactiveui.net/contribute/content-style-guide/grammar-and-mechanics

In the time and time zone section of the above page we have the following section:

Time
Use numerals and am or pm, with a space in between. Don’t use minutes for on-the-hour time.

7 am
7:30 pm
Use a hyphen between times to indicate a time period.

7am-10:30pm
Specify time zones when writing about an event or something else people would need to schedule. Default to UTC unless targeting a particular timezone.

Abbreviate time zones within the continental United States as follows:

Eastern time: ET
Central time: CT
Mountain time: MT
Pacific time: PT

When referring to international time zones, spell them out: Nepal Standard Time, Australian Eastern Time. If a time zone does not have a set name, use its Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) offset.

I don't think international users would know the US time zones would be, especially with the above abbreviations of just 2 letters.

Given we are pretty international user group we should probably just have all time zones be fully written.

[RLittlesII]

@glennawatson is UTC an option?

[S3bt3r]

I think the suggestion to use UTC is good. Because probably only a few people know the times of the time zones but mostly how their time zone is relative to the UTC time.
I sometimes get confused myself as a 24 hour guy with the pm/am times 😕

[glennawatson]

@Asesjix You'd be surprised how many people outside Europe don't know their time zone relative to UTC. Also there are daylights savings in both the US and Australia which complicates that more.

I agree listing times with UTC always, then listing other time zones as needed (eg for a event) makes sense.