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This would be great. Could we go so far as to have the entire whole world operate on UTC, so we could have an Earth Time?
by staunch 6y ago
This would be great. Could we go so far as to have the entire whole world operate on UTC, so we could have an Earth Time?
- wbc 6y agoagreed! based on the amount of "time" i've wasted converting timezones in code, i tell everyone that'd listen we should just teach kids to memorize unix timestamps and these problems would all go away
- lucasmullens 6y agoSounds great in theory, but it becomes too hard to know what times are "early" and "late" for people. When telling people what time it is, you'd also have to include where you are so they know what's early/late, and at that point you've just reinvented timezones.
- staunch 6y agoFor the billions of people with smart phones, wouldn't this be very easily solved with a default app?
- function_seven 6y agoLike it is now? Sure. So then what benefit are you looking for in changing everyone to UTC?
- makeworld 6y agoAbolishing time zones has a lot of problems. https://qntm.org/abolish https://qntm.org/abolish
- staunch 6y agoYeah, of course there are trade offs, and that's not a balanced run down of them. Most of the issues raised there seem easily addressed in the modern world.
- JoshTriplett 6y agohttps://qntm.org/abolish https://qntm.org/abolish