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You’re never gonna convince the world to remove time zones. Switch to UTC and now the idea of the sun rising between 5-7 AMish is ruined because it would be 2 A
by colejohnson66 5y ago
You’re never gonna convince the world to remove time zones. Switch to UTC and now the idea of the sun rising between 5-7 AMish is ruined because it would be 2 AM where I am now. Since the invention of the sundial, time zones have existed in some form or another. Programmers just have deal with it.
- eru 5y agoThe sun doesn't rise between 5-7 AM-ish in many parts of the world. First, if you timezone is 'right', on average the sun should rise about 6 am. In winter, it rises later, in summer it rises earlier. Where I grew up in Germany the sun rose as late as 8:20 am in winter. And funny enough, the latest rise in Madrid in Spain is at 8:40 am in winter. That's because Madrid is on the 'wrong' timezone: it's in the same timezone as Germany, but much further west. (You are right however, that time zones do roughly keep noon around 12-ish. It's just that the band of variation around the world is quite a lot wider than you might imagine.)
- mcronce 5y ago> Switch to UTC and now the idea of the sun rising between 5-7 AMish is ruined And this idea is critically important because?
- colejohnson66 5y agoIt alone isn’t. But the notion of the sun rising in the mid-AM, midday being at noon, and the sun then setting in the mid-PM is literally as old as the sundial. There’s no way you’re convincing society that “no timezones” is a good thing.