> Parochial seems like the opposite of what it is. Parochial in the sense that he's advocating major societal changes based on his narrow interests as a softwa

> Parochial seems like the opposite of what it is. Parochial in the sense that he's advocating major societal changes based on his narrow interests as a software developer. It's like if I went on a foreign vacation, and after some communication difficulties, saying the whole world should drop their local languages and standardize on English because I'm an English-speaker, and, by the way, a common language would make international commerce more efficient. The proposal is mainly a selfish one to slightly reduce my costs at massive cost to others, and my non-selfish (non-parochial) "reason" for it is prioritizing a minor use-cases over far more common ones. If we abolished local time/time zones in favor of universal time, it'd just get re-invented again.