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You have to know how the sun behaves at your local position relative to the universal time regardless of whether we call that knowledge "time zones" or somethin
by coldpie 4y ago
You have to know how the sun behaves at your local position relative to the universal time regardless of whether we call that knowledge "time zones" or something else. It sounds like what you want is for everyone to be more explicit about their time zone: instead of saying "the conference starts at 3 PM" they should say, "the conference starts at 3 PM UTC-6", right? From that you can easily derive that it's 9 PM UTC, and interpret that however you like for your current location.
- trompetenaccoun 4y agoMaybe you haven't experienced it yet but it's not as simple. I live in different countries and regularly have to deal with this. There's often confusion about time zones. Sure, it's "just a simple" conversion in theory but firstly the point is that ideally you should not have to do this at all and secondly no one calls it "UTC-6". You're lucky if they add a time zone at all, and when they do it's usually "EST", "Beijing time", "Eastern" (which can be Australian, American or whatever, your job to know from context), etc. Then you have to deal with DST, but only in some countries during some parts of the year. And don't forget the countries that add half hours, or Nepal which is extra special with an additional 3/4 because why not. It's utter madness. Unless you're a savant who can remember all regions with corresponding time zones and all the exceptions, you'd be looking this up, which is what people normally do.