Some of this is really egregious. The top firms on this list shorted their workers by over £1,000. That's not pocket change. It's almost enough to buy four burgers and a milkshake at Five Guys.
This, however, is music to my ears:
More than 600 employers were ordered to pay affected workers the outstanding wages, with £4m returned to workers, according to the Department for Business and Trade.
The firms have also been issued penalties worth £7m.
Please understand that ChatGPT was released in November 2022.
And also understand that the distinction between chess and ChatGPT is the point of the comment. These two things both use AI but one is harmless and useful while the other is not.
Exactly right. That is the distinction I'm trying to draw.
Me when the meme doesn't perfectly describe reality
Because UTC-7 and UTC-8 are also wrong. The label "Pacific Time" means, in the United States and Mexico, the civil time standard that observes standard time at UTC-8 and daylight saving time at UTC-7. You cannot call this standard merely "UTC-8" because then it's wrong half of the year.
It is important to note that by calling year-round UTC-7 "Pacific Time", British Columbia and Yukon are the ones stepping out of the programme to do something idiosyncratic. The rest of the Pacific Time Zone (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Baja California) has a greater population than the entirety of Canada. There are approximately 56 million residents of the non-Canadian portion of the Pacific Time Zone, where standard time is UTC-8, compared to 5 million in the Canadian portion, which is UTC-7.
"Pacific Time" means "whatever the civil time is in the Pacific Time Zone, accounting for daylight saving time". So that would be 23:04 (UTC-7) as of writing.
If today's date were instead 30 December, "Pacific Time" would be 22:04 (UTC-8) in Washington, Oregon, and California, while it would be 23:04 (UTC-7) in British Columbia and Yukon. Both would be called "Pacific Time" despite not being the same time, and both being on standard time.
The name causes confusion. Let me give you this example. What time UTC would "17:00 PT" be?
That question depends now not only on what time of year it is, but also where. "Pacific Time" now no longer uniquely identifies a single timekeeping scheme.
I do not claim you "owe" me anything. I'm offering feedback on your communication. You are free to reject that feedback and call me names if you want.
I think your comment also needs some work.
British Columbia basically did a similar thing by declaring permanent daylight savings time because, according to the premier, they're no longer going to wait for the US to move as well before moving themselves.
Except now the situation is objectively worse than it was before, because BC is geographically in the UTC-8 zone, but permanent Pacific Daylight Time is the same as permanent Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7). Except they don't call it Mountain Standard Time in BC, they stubbornly continue to insist they're in the UTC-8 zone. Except they don't call it "Pacific Daylight Time" either, they call it just "Pacific Time". No "Daylight". Despite the fact that their standard time is what the rest of North America calls Mountain Time.
They had four good choices, and chose none of them:
Decent idea, rubbish execution.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics* in action
* the Chinese characteristic is unrestrained capitalist exploitation