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I was a Field Engineer. People in submarines ... they live on 'rotation schedules' and the entire crew might be divided into 3 different 'sleep shifts'. And
by edblarney 10y ago
I was a Field Engineer.
People in submarines ... they live on 'rotation schedules' and the entire crew might be divided into 3 different 'sleep shifts'.
And as for time - who knows.
They can use UTC, surely they do for many things - that's why UTC exists - for those who need it.
For 99.9% of the real world, we want local time.
FYI - the '12 hour' thing is a little arbitrary. Napoleon, who instituted a vast array of reforms in Europe that are still in place today, including to a great extent the 'metric system' - tried to institute 'metric time' as well, i.e. 10 hour days.
Didn't go so well, the people revolted/laughed away at that one.
Some things are pretty 'backed in' to culture.
Time is one of them.
Granted I will admit one thing: I live in Montreal, and like the French, the use a 24 system. So coffee shop closes at 19:00. Which means '7 pm'. Which is hard to get used to!