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PDT FOREVER!
by birdmanjeremy 9y ago
PDT FOREVER!
- trimbo 9y agoAs an early riser, PST forever! I vote we do a half hour compromise.
- Xeoncross 9y ago> I vote we do a half hour compromise. Please no, just stop
- tlrobinson 9y agoFun fact, Nepal's timezone is UTC+5:45.
- walrus01 9y agoAfghanistan is +4:30 , which is different from both Iran and Pakistan
- Y_Y 9y agoAfghanistan also borders China, and the time jumps three and a half hours at the border.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoMost places in Xinjiang have an unofficial local time that they use in addition to official Chinese standard time. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Time One can imagine in Kashgar the ridiculousness of Beijing time is even more noticeable than in Urumuqi.
- walrus01 9y agoDoesn't really affect things though since there is no road through the Wakhan corridor to reach China, and no road over the mountain pass. If you want to drive it is a very long way via the karakoram highway via Gilgit in Pakistan. Travel from AF to CN is generally done by flying to Dubai, Delhi or Islamabad first.
- WorldMaker 9y agoMany historic timezones have 15 minute offsets. In the era before American railroads synchronized timezones to the hours, Louisville, KY, as one example close to home, was often UTC-5:45. (It's GE's fault that Louisville and consequently most of the US I-65 corridor wound up EST rather than CST.) I don't expect to win arguments that the city should return to UTC-5:45, but I make them anyway to amuse myself.
- stretchwithme 9y agoAnd that's the important thing. :-)
- prakashk 9y agoIndia, UTC+05:30, all through the year. Despite having widely different climate zones in various regions of the country, there is no "Daylight Saving Time".
- drbacon 9y agoYour resolve is weak!
- birdmanjeremy 9y agoI would accept your compromise in the winter, but I'm keeping my 8:30 sunset in the summer.
- dmode 9y agoThis. As a parent, I would love to have daylight after work so that I can enjoy some time with my kid outdoors. It is depressing to pick up your child when it is already dark outside.
- bhauer 9y agoAnd I can get behind that, which is why I say we can be either PST or MST, I don't really care which. (MST being functionally equivalent to PDT.) Frankly, I just want us to choose something and lock it in. PST, MST, UTC, or whatever. Just don't make me change my timezone ever again.
- birdmanjeremy 9y agoUTC is a terrible choice, I don't even know what time I would wake up in UTC. My family in NC would never know what time to call. I'd be OK with PST or MST/PDT. I'd prefer more light in the evenings though, I work an early schedule and don't actually care if it's light when I go to the office.
- dpark 9y ago> I don't even know what time I would wake up in UTC. You’d probably wake up about the same UTC time that you currently wake up, whatever that is. Do you imagine that if your state switched to UTC everyone would just begin a free for all and show up to school and work just whenever? Of course not. > My family in NC would never know what time to call. Probably the exact same time they call now. I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t be able to figure it out.
- BrandoElFollito 9y agoIt would be complicated to answer questions such as "what time does school starts in your county"? Today if you are American and I am French, if I say "we start at 8:30 and finish at 16:30" you would understand immediately. In UTC you would need to convert. Of course UTC helps when we need to agree on the time to have a call. I guess the advantage vs drawback depends on the kind of messages people usually convey