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Humans measure time by measuring the sun's relative position to their standpoint on the earth -- If the sun is above my head, it is daytime and I will do all so
by zzyzxd 5y ago
Humans measure time by measuring the sun's relative position to their standpoint on the earth -- If the sun is above my head, it is daytime and I will do all sorts of activities. And if the sun is below the horizon then it is night time and I will go to bed. A 24h clock rotation system is designed to measure the progress of a "day".
Getting rid of timezone conversion makes it difficult for human brain to understand the relative time of day in other locations on the earth.
Knowing that it is 22:00 UTC on the other side of the globe doesn't mean much to me. But if it is 12PM local time there, then I immediately get a basic idea that it is roughly the lunch time.
- zamadatix 5y agoKnowing it's "roughly lunch time" on the other side of the globe doesn't mean much to me, knowing "I'm available from 22:00-1:00" or "let's try to arrive at 23:00" does. If I'm particularly interested in where the sun is there at that time that's when I should need to look it up, not every single time we try to reference times between 2 locations for the off chance I actually care about the sun's position. I may have a bias here in that I already do meeting scheduling in UTC due to the geographic dispersion of the folks I work with and amount of cross tz travel we do (well, not as much of that as of late but hopefully soon again).
- zzyzxd 5y agoPersonally, I would prefer to not to schedule meetings around lunch time if possible. Also, if you are to book a flight, don't you care whether the plane will land in the afternoon or late in the evening?