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Blog: Fix various Time Rant errors

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@ -11,14 +11,13 @@ standard should Bob use to schedule the call? How about
should be able to use it, right?
Unfortunately, life is not so simple. If Bob scheduled a call for “05:00 UTC”,
one other person would show up on-time. The rest will try to join at 17:00
(05:00 p.m.) in whatever their local time zone is. This insanity is the reason
why [countdown timers](https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/create)
are so common nowadays.
one other person will show up on-time. The rest will try to join at 17:00
(05:00 p.m.) in whatever their local time zone is. Frustrating situations like
these are responsible for
[countdown timers](https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/create)
becoming so common nowadays.
This insanity has been driving people insane since the beginning of time, but
This insanity has been driving people mad since the beginning of time, but
this is not the fault of individual people who don’t understand what “UTC” is.
This is a systemic issue which ought to be corrected. If everybody learns to
read analog clocks in primary school, they should learn about time zones as
@ -59,7 +58,7 @@ the time and displaying it to users.
As far as most people should be concerned, offsets are just acronyms that
represent offsets from UTC. For example, [Central European Time](https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/cet)
(CET) is one hours ahead of UTC. This means that it is also represented as
(CET) is one hour ahead of UTC. This means that it is also represented as
UTC+1 or UTC+0100. Some time zones need more than an hour of precision as well.
For example, [Newfoundland Standard Time](https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/nst)
(NST) is represented as UTC-3:30 or UTC-0330.