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You’re free to use GMT if you want. The rest of us would prefer it not to change from Friday to Saturday in the middle of lunch.
by panic 8y ago
You’re free to use GMT if you want. The rest of us would prefer it not to change from Friday to Saturday in the middle of lunch.
- goobynight 8y agoWhy would it matter if it is technically midnight Saturday in the middle of lunch? Does the name of the day affect you? Remember that the premise here is that nothing would change other than the labels we assign to periods of time.
- highwind 8y agoBusiness days/hours are currently labeled using the time system based on solar time: We are open Monday~Friday 9AM~5PM Saturday 11AM~2PM etc. Without timezones, this would be really confusing. You'd have to say something like "We are open from Day1 9PM until Day2 5AM, etc." which can be annoying.
- matz1 8y agoI would prefer one time zone. Even with current multiple time zone you still have to look up for the business hour/days. You can't just assume business day mean monday-friday 9am-5pm.
- dhimes 8y agoIndeed, it's important enough to move the date line so that weekdays in Tonga and Samoa (etc.) align with New Zealand. If I understand it correctly, this had to do with the fact that the sabbath is taken seriously by many peoples.
- cecja 8y agoWe live in a society
- tasuki 8y agoYou used the word midnight. Mid-night. Middle of the night. Definitely not middle of lunch!
- InitialLastName 8y agoAs others have pointed out, there are two questions that need answering: "What time is it where I'm not?" and "Is this a reasonable time for activity N where I'm not?" If we drop timezones, then to find out whether N is areasonable time for (say) a meeting a quarter of the world over, you need to look up either sunrise/set times or standard business hours (which are different everywhere anyway) and judge by that. Now, you just have to look up the time difference to you.
- petre 8y agoIt would make it harder to keep track of day/night time. Human activity is mostly happening during day time. In the past sundials were used to keep track of time. Clocks are just a modern replacement for sundials that's more precise and reliable.
- matz1 8y agoThese days human activity is not limited to mostly day time only and i suspect it will be less relevant in the future.
- mantas 8y agoDay time as in 8-5? Well, most people still work or study in those hours. Day time as in waking hours 6-23? That's when vaaaaast majority of stuff happens. On top of that, there's more and more research coming up why it's healthy to stick to solar day. I guess solar day will be more and more relevant and we're having (if not already past) peak nightlife.
- matz1 8y agoSo if someone prefer to solar day then do it, its just with one time zone this solar day will be different for everyone.
- mantas 8y agoWe have solar day right now. Solar day being 20-04 would be kinda shitty. Is it monday or tuesday? Or do we switch from monday to tuesday at different hour in each location? On top of that, vast majority of population does not care about that at all. Why inconvenience majority for benefit few people will have?
- matz1 8y agoNot shitty for me. >Is it monday or tuesday? Or do we switch from monday to tuesday at different hour in each location? Lets say we choose the UTC date time as the standard then it's the same utc date for, and switch from Monday to Tuesday at the same utc hour for everyone. I think its nice and i hope someone out there working on this. They have my support.
- function_seven 8y agoSo what does, "You want to meet for lunch on Saturday?" mean? Do they want to meet for lunch on the afternoon that starts Saturday or the one that ends it?
- yongjik 8y ago> Why would it matter if it is technically midnight Saturday in the middle of lunch? Does the name of the day affect you? But... but... you just complained about having to know it's 6am in another place!
- athenot 8y agoIs today Monday or Monday-Tuesday or Sunday-Monday? I work with coworkers all over the world. Currently it's Monday afternoon where I'm at, and I'm in a meeting with someone in Australia where it's Tuesday morning. Now this is an edge case. For most people, everything between sunrise and sunset is one day. One business day has one name / datecode that's easy to refer to. I would greatly benefit from using UTC across the board (and in my mind I do a lot of reasoning in UTC) but that would not make sense for 99% of the population around me. Unlike machines, the human time cycle is bound to day-night cycles, so it makes sense to follow that at least approximately.
- nicky0 8y agoWell we could say right now it's 15:72pm on the 47th of Octember, nothing has changed but the assigned labels, right?
- Aunche 8y agoThat's a good point, but it's not like midnight makes the most sense as the start of the day either. If you're talking after midnight, most people aren't going to consider what happened 1 hour ago as "yesterday at 11 pm."
- Spivak 8y agoIt's not really important when the switch between days occurs as long as it happens when most people are asleep. Otherwise people are just going to invent 'solar day' and make everything much more confusing.
- kabacha 8y agoI mean China makes it work and it spans 5 time zones. It's not "Friday to Saturday" in the middle of lunch but it's not far from it.
- plopilop 8y agoWell technically something like 99% of the population lives in zones that map to "theoretical" UTC+7/8, and it's not as if local populations had their word to say anyway--switching Tibet to China's time after its invasion was definitely more political rather than practical
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