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Would it be too much to have a global movement for uniform time standards? No half-hour timezones, no daylight savings, no leap seconds, just easily predictable
by return0 11y ago
Would it be too much to have a global movement for uniform time standards? No half-hour timezones, no daylight savings, no leap seconds, just easily predictable time. Calendars are supposed to be convenient, and right now our ancient conventions make it difficult to understand each other (not just computers; think of travelers having to adjust to timezones, "do I need DST or not?"). At least, lets think of the electricity consumed converting date structures.
PS. and while we re at it why not switch time to base-10? And seriously get rid of the imperial units already.
- Fuzzwah 11y agoSwatch Internet Time is going to really take off one day.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
- Piskvorrr 11y agoWith the resurgence of faxing, perhaps.
- DanAndersen 11y agoYou may be interested in the following articles: "So you want to abolish time zones" https://qntm.org/abolish https://qntm.org/abolish >We already do have a global standard time zone, and everybody who cares already uses it: UTC. There are also more accurate time standards in use for more specialist purposes. "You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform" https://qntm.org/calendar https://qntm.org/calendar These links helped convince me that while time zones and calendar systems are very messy, there are some inherent reasons why they are messy.
- return0 11y agoI think timezones are useful. But the rest is not. We could just agree on a (non-solar) calendar that is predictable for the next, say 1000 years.