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No, you wouldn't: https://qntm.org/abolish https://qntm.org/abolish

• rascul 4y ago
  Yes, I would. If I need to call someone in their morning, I need to determine the same offset. I have plenty experience with both ends using UTC regardless of where in the world they are. It's much easier. Either 0425 works for both or we need to adjust one way or the other. I still need to know that your schedule is four hours ahead of mine, but we don't need to do math to figure out what time 0425 is. The cognitive overhead is diminished.
  • lifthrasiir 4y ago
    That's a pro for having UTC, not a pro for having no time zones. I believe this is the main reason that going against time zones is flawed---people don't exactly know what they are claiming!
    • rascul 4y ago
      When everyone works on the same timezone it's the same as not having timezones.
      • lifthrasiir 4y ago
        The point of the parent article was that it is impossible to make everyone work on the same time zone, as they will inevitably make up their own time zones. This is not even a hypothetical example, the article explicitly mentions western China [1] where the standard time zone was so off that everyone uses an unofficial time zone instead. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Time
      • Juliate 4y ago
        But when everyone doesn’t live in the same spot on earth, it becomes tricky. Time for living things is primarily based on the course of the sun above their heads. Hence timezones to adjust between the local needs, and the worldwide synchronization. UTC is plenty enough to offer a good sync reference for distributed teams. Swatch beats was a good idea too, but failed.
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