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We should abolish local time too. There should be a single time for every country which is the number of milliseconds since either the beginning of human civili
by jondubois 7y ago
We should abolish local time too. There should be a single time for every country which is the number of milliseconds since either the beginning of human civilization, the beginning of earth or the universe.
- iainmerrick 7y agoA. Why? B. If you want to be super strict about it, as I imagine you do, that scheme would hit problems with relativistic effects. Local time is the only real time.
- adrianN 7y agoI like Swatch Internet Time.
- teddyh 7y agoSo You Want To Abolish Time Zones https://qntm.org/abolish https://qntm.org/abolish
- lozf 7y agoMean Julian Days (MJD) are the agreed standard for something like that. Abolishing local time has a number of issues as linked in other comments. The time standards we currently have are all well suited to their purpose, it's just a case of picking the most appropriate one for the task. (Plenty of room for more TAI in modern technology).