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I think in practice it would work pretty similar to how it does now. Companies would set their own time guidelines (ie. "Most of us arrive between 2200 and 2300
by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
I think in practice it would work pretty similar to how it does now. Companies would set their own time guidelines (ie. "Most of us arrive between 2200 and 2300, but just make sure you're here by 2315 every day")
For scheduling meetings with people globally, you'd have to figure out the day/night cycle but I doubt it would be all that much different than it is now.
But! There would be no goofy daylight savings time differences and there would be no ambiguity ("Oops, I thought the meeting was at 1pm my time, not yours...").
Plus, all us programmers could sleep peacefully at night knowing that our time-based code would just work, instead of waking in a cold sweat wondering what will happen when a government across the globe decides to erase the existence of a day.
- corin_ 15y agoIf I want to ring a company in another country I would rather be able to make an educated guess that has a 99% chance of success, such as "they will be at work at 2pm in their timezone" than have to look up that company's guidelines..
- brazzy 15y agoExcept your "educated guess" right now has a good chance of being wrong due to the complexity of computing what time in your timezone corresponds to 2 pm in theirs.