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The alternative is that we have a DNS-style lookup of every city on earth which contains what each city has chosen for their daylight hours. You’d run into many
by jimbob45 3y ago
The alternative is that we have a DNS-style lookup of every city on earth which contains what each city has chosen for their daylight hours. You’d run into many more boundary-centric issues than with our columnar approach.
- brightlancer 3y ago> The alternative is that we have a DNS-style lookup of every city on earth which contains what each city has chosen for their daylight hours. We already have to do that: every business and government office (including schools) has their own hours (and holidays); even in the same city, people are not waking (or going to sleep) at a uniform time. Time zones are a 19th century solution to a 19th century problem.