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Or remote communication.

• hinkley 11y ago
  Or trading on the stock market.
  • nikolay 11y ago
    You guys have a limited imagination! In the near future, timezone conversion will be frictionless. Thanks to AI voice communication can automatically convert time and text-based communication can do this earlier. Don't forget Skype can now translate voice in real time!
    • turbohz 11y ago
      Why would we have to wait for the future to solve an issue we invented ourselves? Calendars, timezones, unit measures, currencies are self inflicted pain.
      • nikolay 11y ago
        Because we need to know approximately the time left till dawn or dusk without having to calculate it every time in every timezone we currently are in. In fact, the date is a problem we invented - time of the day is natural, the location of the sun in the day.
        • turbohz 11y ago
          Good point! But I think you underestimate how adaptable humans are. You would get used to midday being 18:00h very fast.