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Daylight savings time is dumb. But, I think time zones are not. It's very useful to have some measure of the hours that is roughly the same around the world Ma
by ks2048 3y ago
Daylight savings time is dumb. But, I think time zones are not. It's very useful to have some measure of the hours that is roughly the same around the world
Maybe some time zone borders are dumb, but mostly they follow the necessary complexities of political boundaries, geography, history, etc.
- 77pt77 3y agoAnyone that finds timezones dumb should have a look at China. Only on timezone. From the eastern border with Russia, to the border with Afghanistan.
- ks2048 3y agoYeah, China is pretty bad. There is a cool map that shows the "errors" between local time and "ideal": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone#/media/File:Solar_time_vs_standard_time.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone#/media/File:Solar_ti...
- kccqzy 3y agoAnd then you talk to anyone from western parts of China and they tell you the single-timezone policy is blatant geographical discrimination by the central government.
- matricaria 3y ago> It's very useful to have some measure of the hours that is roughly the same around the world You could just have the same time everywhere. The only thing that changes is that 12 o’clock isn’t midday anymore, which doesn’t match with the current system almost anywhere.
- ks2048 3y agoSo in a story someone says, "I woke up at 5:00 every day" it would be meaningless without also knowing roughly what longitude they were at (With time zones it's approximate, but we know it means they woke up early). If we had a "universal time" - like all our clocks are on UTC - I think people would naturally invent local times and we'd be back to time zones.
- iggldiggl 3y agoIt's also confusing if the change in calendar date happens while most people are out and about.