Tag: tampa bay bloggers
Daylight Standard Stupid
This is a simple public service announcement because of a pretty simple flaw I see repeatedly coming from businesses or those who are trying to be pretentious and official in declarations online (via social media or on their own web sites):
Unless you are in Arizona and a few other select locations throughout the United States, you cannot schedule things as happening at Standard Time currently.
It’s ridiculous to have to explain this but the United States of America is currently in Daylight Savings Time (or Daylight Time). That’s what the whole “spring forward” thing is in March. The country doesn’t move back to standard time until Sunday, November 5th at 2 in the morning.
So business posts something like this…
We can’t say no to a ? #waterfront view! Join @TBbloggers & Oystercatchers for a #TampaBayTuesday chat, 8/22 at noon EST. @OCsGHTB #OCsGHTB
— Tampa Bay Bloggers (@TBbloggers) August 21, 2017
…they’re basically saying the event starts at 1 PM EDT because we’re in EDT now. If you want to be pretentious on time and date and don’t understand the time difference, do yourself a favor and just list the time as ET, CT, MT or PT which applies specifically for the zone you’re in.
Really, it’s not rocket science to know the differences or to get around them entirely in listing a time. Don’t look so uneducated.
Seeking blog contributors for Raw Charge
Raw Charge is looking for writers to add to the staff of their SB Nation blog covering the Tampa Bay Lightning. How would I know? I run the damn place, that is how I would know.
I bring this up on my personal blog site that gets next-to-no web traffic (but a gargantuan number of bot driven spam comments) because it’s a chance to talk about the aspiration to add staff. Well, it’s not just adding staff, per se. It’s about trying to find writing teammates to work with. This is a quest to find guys and girls who love the sport, and the team but also want to be part of something bigger.
Things have changed in the past calendar year (or a bit longer) on Raw Charge with people leaving the site, self-driven writers who didn’t want to fit a format (be it site use or grammar), and college influence / professional aspirations stopping others from writing in a casual format.
While the site has taken on some very capable writers the past few months, there is still missing elements and consistency in contributions.
I’m looking for a Tampa Bay based element for new contributors. I don’t mean relocated-for-college-but-originally-from-TB people… I mean folks who are here.
You can access the official post about looking-for-writers at this link.
