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This article takes far too long to get to the main objection against using a global time: for a large part of the world population it will break up the local da
by em500 3y ago
This article takes far too long to get to the main objection against using a global time: for a large part of the world population it will break up the local day and spread daily activities across two days. That's a far bigger inconvenience than some extra workload for programmers and people who need to schedule cross timezone activities.
- digging 3y agoI'm not fully convinced it would be an actual problem. So what if my Friday workday spans two dates? Wouldn't "Friday" just be my local day, which spans March 14-15? I feel people like the author would be intentionally making things difficult by referring to local days and absolute dates by the same names without making efforts to differentiate. In reality, language adapts rapidly for convenience in most cases.