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How would you redraw timezones that factor those winters in properly?
by jjulius 5y ago
How would you redraw timezones that factor those winters in properly?
- sumtechguy 5y agoI think what they are saying is timezones mostly follow along north south. When if they took into account the tilt of the earth it would not be as big of an issue the further north or south you go from the equator.
- ItsMonkk 5y agoGet rid of them. Timezones are a leaky abstraction over daylight. They are to broad, so run into these failure modes. I would train people to run off of UTC time most of the time when they need to synchronize a specific time. Then train them to run off of sunrise/sunset offsets for situations where daylight matters. Most of the parks in my neighborhood are open sunrise to sunset, that's perfect. With modern digital clocks, this would be trivial to setup. When should work hours be? Either some UTC time if we're remote, or if all local, something like 10 hours before sunset to 2 hours before sunset.
- NathanielLovin 5y agohttps://qntm.org/abolish https://qntm.org/abolish
- ItsMonkk 5y agoI liked this, thanks. But that example is so weird, the second query is just as easy[0]. [0]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%21wa%20is%20it%20daytime%20in%20melbourne%20australia https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%21wa%20is%20it%20daytime%20in%20m...
- rp1 5y agoIsn’t that different than ending DST? You’re proposing something entirely different…