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Then there would be a thousand timezones and no one would agree what normal business hours are.

• nitrogen 6y ago
  What are the advantages of normal business hours, in an era when most office work can be done asynchronously, and most retail stores have extended or 24 hour schedules? "Normal business hours" meant that when I was living in SF, nearly everything in my neighborhood closed by 3PM.
• asdff 6y ago
  business hours would just follow whatever the national stock exchange settles upon, like they do now. people in finance in SF keep eastern time.
  • Jolter 6y ago
    It would most certainly not. What does a fruit stall in Minnesota care about the NYSE’s opening hours?
• gojomo 6y ago
  > ...no one would agree what normal business hours are. Which would be... great! More businesses should vary hours to adapt to local conditions – the exact needs of its customers, employees, community, complementary nearby activities. Hell, make the business hours "+X minutes after local sunrise today to +Y minutes after local sunset", if that's what's sleep-healthiest or matches the rhythm of its surroundings. Anyone can & should use their handheld/Google-Maps to check a particular spot's hours, and businesses should consider it their duty to keep those up-to-date. Commercial districts that gain a big benefit from easy-to-predict hours – malls, connected retail strips, complementary business types – will synchronize on a local-consensus. "Normal business hours" are 19th-Century holdover from a world that, lacking telecommunications, needed hard-and-fast coordination mechanisms. It's the 21st Century. Use UTC.