To Mr. Keith Slayton, my favorite pen pal: thank you for suggesting today’s topic.
Wishing you a solemn All Saints’ Day and a soothing Dia de los Muertos! (For more on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallowmas touched on yesterday, or the Dia de los Muertos, click the respective links.)
As we revel in these holidays and the upcoming weekend, there’s one more thing to celebrate: the time change! Woo-hoo to an “extra” hour of sleep! Don’t forget to turn your clock back an hour on Saturday night or Sunday morning. And here’s a writing-related reminder that goes with that. When you need to indicate time zones, follow the hours and minutes with the correct abbreviation (a.m. or p.m.) and the time zone after those in parentheses. For example: Meet me in the N Satellite security area of Sea-Tac at 12:30 p.m. (PST). The zones listed in the Chicago Manual of Style include:
| GMT | Greenwich mean time |
| EST | eastern standard time |
| EDT | eastern daylight time |
| CST | central standard time |
| CDT | central daylight time |
| MST | mountain standard time |
| MDT | mountain daylight time |
| PST | Pacific standard time |
| PDT | Pacific daylight time |
Note: If you can’t remember whether it is standard or daylight time, you can always cheat and use the two-letter abbreviation, such as (CT) for Central Time.
Kara Church
Senior Technical Editor
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