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If you're saying we should have a global standard reference time, sure I agree but we already do: Zulu/UTC. e.g. the US military uses it despite it not being l

If you're saying we should have a global standard reference time, sure I agree but we already do: Zulu/UTC. e.g. the US military uses it despite it not being local to anywhere in the US. But you don't just want to throw away local time. Local time is important shared nomenclature for "point in a day". If you throw away local time and just say "I had a visitor at 0300 yesterday" you're leaving it up to the listener to both figure out where you live and do the math for whether you had an unexpected night visit or somebody interrupted your dinner.

beebeepka 5y ago
Your second paragraph doesn't make any sense to me. If I know where you are, then I already know what you meant by "yesterday". If I don't, then local time has no upside in that regard. This is the internet. I don't make assumptions as to where people are located unless it is relevant to the topic
- stavros 5y ago
  On the contrary, if I say "I remember it was 5:30pm when I saw X" you can immediately picture the setting. With a world time, you'll need to know where the location is, too. Besides, as the parent said, we already have a world time. Use UTC.