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People don't need a local time, they expect one based on tradition. If we all agreed that Zulu or Stardate or whatever was the way to go, and we had a singular

People don't need a local time, they expect one based on tradition. If we all agreed that Zulu or Stardate or whatever was the way to go, and we had a singular planetary time, we'd all know what that time meant in local terms. Maybe your sun rises at 00:12 and mine at 08:15. Maybe you go to work at 01:00 and we do at 10:00. Local traditions prevail. Unfortunately establishing a world-wide time system would probably have people screaming something about the Illuminati, the New World Order or Reptilians. This is why we can't have nice things.

masklinn 10y ago
> People don't need a local time People do need a local time. > Maybe your sun rises at 00:12 and mine at 08:15. That's already the case regardless of timezones (sunrise is currently at 02:24 in Akureyri, Iceland with sunset at 00:10) > Maybe you go to work at 01:00 and we do at 10:00. When shops open or close, people take dinner, the trains start and stop running or people go to work are all local time concepts. If you don't provide convenient time notations for local times people will just make their own because they need to talk about these concepts and synchronise based on them anyway. That has nothing to do with local traditions, it's a form of compression. > This is why we can't have nice things. UTC already exists, and foisting it on everybody regardless of their actual needs is not a nice thing, it's just technologist laziness.