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And make converting time between different time zones/countries even more confusing.
by qwytw 3y ago
And make converting time between different time zones/countries even more confusing.
- jhugo 3y agoIndia manages to deal with a fractional offset from UTC, as well as several other countries. It’s really not that big a deal.
- netsharc 3y agoThat makes me wonder of the little adaptions they need, that we Minute-Zero-ians ;) don't notice... do many Indian desktops have world clocks, for example?
- rational_indian 3y agoRegular people dont't have world clocks. Only people who need to care about this do.
- madcaptenor 3y agoI just had a look through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UTC_offsets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UTC_offsets, because I thought it was just India and some obscure little islands - but some fairly substantial countries (Iran, Afghanistan, Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka) also have non-whole-hour time zones.
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- Tagbert 3y agoand that 30 minute offset makes quick mental timezone math doubly hard and error prone. What is the benefit of merging timezones?
- irdc 3y agoThe EU is big enough and the CPU in your watch is fast enough that it won’t matter.
- qwytw 3y ago> CPU in your watch I'm much more concerned about the one in my head.
- seydor 3y agoBut more work for programmers
- anticensor 3y agotzdata is a thing
- petre 3y agoAs if DST isn't enough work - it messes up the linearity of time.