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also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar htt
by keymone 8y ago
also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
- Avamander 8y agoalso Single time zone earth please
- dtech 8y agoWhat does UTC lack for you to fulfill that role?
- Avamander 8y agoI said it half-jokingly, trying to continue the train of thought of OP. The current system is quite fine.
- ifdefdebug 8y agoI suspect most supporters of that idea live near Greenwich latitude but I might be wrong...
- Chinjut 8y agoLongitude, you presumably mean.
- ifdefdebug 8y agoexactly, sorry.
- bhaak 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
- DoctorPenguin 8y agoI still remember my "Swatch The Beep" watch =)
- lucb1e 8y agoSwatch Internet Time feels to me like a prime example of adding another standard for no reason whatsoever, other than to attach a brand to a timezone for promotion of course. I don't know why people keep bringing it up.
- Karunamon 8y agoIt is a pretty nifty concept - having time in a day measured as divisions of 1000 (a "beat", a minute and some seconds) is aesthetically more pleasing and probably easier to deal with rather than divisions of 60, 24, and 12. Kinda like how SI units are easier to reason about than imperal ones.
- bhaak 8y agoAt a time when people were still wearing watches, you could have an alternative time standard, on your wrist, in actual hardware. Nowadays, you could have that easily as an app on your smart watch, but of course, there are far fewer people wearing smart watches. Also don't forget the egalitarian approach of using a time format that's equally foreign to everybody.
- M_Bakhtiari 8y agoalso Guillotine all who resists new scheme
- grandmczeb 8y agohttps://qntm.org/abolish https://qntm.org/abolish
- chrisper 8y agoDo you like the idea of having to remember that stores in japan open at 23:00 UTC, somwehere else at 3:00 UTC etc.?
- thezoq2 8y agoThat sounds like a way less annoying issue than trying to schedule things across borders
- grandmczeb 8y agoUnless you’re proposing everyone on earth work during the same hours, you’re still going to have to know the standard working hours in the region they’re in. Time zones are basically a standard version of that. Not to mention, a single solar day makes dealing with weekends/holidays way harder.
- lozf 8y agoNo, it just shifts the problem to needing to know which are the working hours at each location you want to interact with. Timezones and Daylight Saving are completely different issues that appear related. Both have flaws, but at least local timezones are a sensible abstraction for general societal behaviour in a given location. If you want a fixed standard time, we already have UTC, - get used to it and the offset of the _local_ times you need to know. https://qntm.org/abolish https://qntm.org/abolish
- TallGuyShort 8y agoI bet the Japanese would remember that pretty quick. If I visit Japan, I don't know customs and practices of local business and have to look things up or go with a local anyway. I certainly don't like people forgetting what timezone I'm in and scheduling important meetings for 6pm on the Friday before a long weekend, or having to stop and look stuff up because I can't remember whether or not I'm in sync with the next state of over during this time of year. The fact is time is different everywhere but we hide that in the way we represent it, making it harder to deal with it.
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- matt4077 8y agoThat’s a stupid idea. Not only will all references to times in movies etc stop making sense. It will not even help to solve any of the perceived problems, like scheduling calls. You might be able to specify the time without a time zone, but you still have to look up if that time is within their daytime. Literally the only people who would profit are those tasked with maintaining time-related functions in operating systems... who would lose their jobs.
- Chinjut 8y agoAll references and depicted cultural practices in movies, novels, plays, etc, become dated over time anyway. The world keeps changing.
- shpx 8y agoalso https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units but only when the Gravitational constant is measured with more precision.
- jaakl 8y agoGlobally this would be too much, but why not in EU? It is +1 for some, and -1 for others, not that much. Just stretch to CET, just like Spain already does.