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Idea made me smile, but what about making appointments? I grant that you usually give a place, too. But to be entirely location independent, my nerd self would
by febeling 10y ago
Idea made me smile, but what about making appointments? I grant that you usually give a place, too. But to be entirely location independent, my nerd self would probably prefer UTC globally and get rid of timezones entirely :)
- mikeash 10y agoGPS time is just UTC but without any leap seconds applied after 1980. It doesn't mean a position dependent time. GPS satellites transmit this, then also transmit the difference between GPS and UTC so that devices can convert it to whatever they want to display.