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If you have UTC and solar time available, you don't need zone time anymore. If you need to coordinate with other people you use UTC. If you want to do things at
by upofadown 10y ago
If you have UTC and solar time available, you don't need zone time anymore. If you need to coordinate with other people you use UTC. If you want to do things at a particular time of day you use solar time.
If you decide to go to work at, say, an hour after sunrise you get all the advantages of DST, anywhere in the world, without any of the disadvantages. The reason DST sucks is because of the way time zones force all time to be an even number of hours (yes, I know there are exceptions, but the principle still holds).
- uryga 10y agoTo be honest I'm surprised at how simple this UTC/Local solution is. I feel like we reinvent absolute/relative in many different areas, and act really surprised each time... That concept is so universal, it's beautiful.
- mxfh 10y agoMy argument as well, keep local time in sync with solar events, mean solar time for practicality. School should start relative to sunrise. Work depending on preference, relative to sunrise/noon/sunset/timezone or utc. All other events that need cross metro region syncs, trains, planes and tv schedules should stick with time zones. I kept a sunrise calendar sheet in the kitchen to be able to bike at sunlight home and to work, it's really all up to flexibility of your workplace and not about DST and "more" daylight. In the Northern hemisphere this is mostly relevant for the months around winter solstice, since otherwise there is enough daylight. I just see no reason to send kids to school in the dark. http://www.aasmnet.org/articles.aspx?id=5176 http://www.aasmnet.org/articles.aspx?id=5176