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Your example is a bad one. People still need to schedule around other people's schedules, like other meetings, lunch breaks, or whatever. But generally you know

Your example is a bad one. People still need to schedule around other people's schedules, like other meetings, lunch breaks, or whatever. But generally you know that people are in the office approximately between 9 and 5. Individual results may vary but that's really really obvious. The idea that UTC is superior and just looking up everyone's offsets is ridiculous especially when dealing with multiple timezones. Regular time gives CONTEXT about things like daylight, which are appropriate business hours, when do people go to sleep, when do people wake up, when is approximately dinner time, when kids approximately get off school, etc. I can ask Siri for Moscow's current time and Tokyo's current time and get all that context instantly. You don't with UTC at all. Everyone knows it's 5:55pm UTC but I have no context as to what that means for them. You can't just share offsets because you won't know the context.

MayeulC 5y ago
> Regular time gives CONTEXT about things like daylight That's the thing I'm discussing here. You are mostly right, but I wanted to point out that depending on a range of factors, local time can be offset by ~3 hours compared to the sun (depending on latitude and longitude), with office times sometimes following suit. DST is even worse if we consider that some businesses have different opening times during winter and summer. Anyway, UTC might be impractical to use in everyday life, or it might not. But please give the time as UTC when scheduling a meeting or event across time zones, especially across countries. This is even worse when someone posts something on the internet: "livestream begins at <random time>". You're lucky if a timezone is posted at all sometimes, but I'd have to look up what will be my local time if something like "PST" is given, while I always know my offset to UTC.

MayeulC 5y ago

> Regular time gives CONTEXT about things like daylight That's the thing I'm discussing here. You are mostly right, but I wanted to point out that depending on a range of factors, local time can be offset by ~3 hours compared to the sun (depending on latitude and longitude), with office times sometimes following suit. DST is even worse if we consider that some businesses have different opening times during winter and summer. Anyway, UTC might be impractical to use in everyday life, or it might not. But please give the time as UTC when scheduling a meeting or event across time zones, especially across countries. This is even worse when someone posts something on the internet: "livestream begins at <random time>". You're lucky if a timezone is posted at all sometimes, but I'd have to look up what will be my local time if something like "PST" is given, while I always know my offset to UTC.