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You 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 g
by DanAndersen 11y ago
You 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.