Comment Re:What time zone is the 10:20 PM? (Score 1) 146
Taken out of context, as it was in the summary, I fully agree that "West Coast" is ambiguous, given the international readership of Slashdot. That's why I made a point of very intentionally establishing context first, by mentioning that it was an LA Times article. I then used an "and" to pair it with the "West Coast" term, indicating that I think you need both to satisfactorily determine the time zone in question, rather than just one or the other.
FWIW, us NZers read 'West Coast' as the west coast of the South Island. Famous for
1: Rain
2: The Hokitika wildfood festival
3: Weird people, known as 'coasters'
But like most other people on the boards, I switch to west coast USA for this. I'm a visitor, best to be on good behaviour when in someone else's house