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Found the German. On a serious note: compared to the other inconsistencies, this seems like a very minor one. If we wanted to standardize time, we should agree
by elaus 2y ago
Found the German.
On a serious note: compared to the other inconsistencies, this seems like a very minor one. If we wanted to standardize time, we should agree on ONE timezone across the world. But of course that seems almost impossible: Having to convince 8 billion people on a change that has little benefit in their everyday life.
- noduerme 2y agoHow would one timezone work? The sun sets at 8:00 in one place and sets at 20:00 on the other side of the world? In terms of working or traveling between time zones, it seem like it would be much harder to remember the fact that, for instance, people in New York stop work when the clock says 17:00 and people in LA work until 20:00, than to remember that they are three time zones apart.
- usrusr 2y agoIIRC the more serious proposals for a global time scheme deliberately abandon the old 24:60:60 so that daylight expectations, locally as they would be, would have to be re-learned anyways. Up to that point that doesn't sound that bad to me. But where i don't see any chance is durations, how many seconds/minutes/hours. I suspect that a change to duration units would be even harder to adapt to than metrification of lengths.
- teddyh 2y agoSo You Want To Abolish Time Zones <https://qntm.org/abolish https://qntm.org/abolish>
- WithinReason 2y agoThis is linked every time and every time it's debunked. It's silly.
- teddyh 2y agoFeel free to link to said debunking. If it exists.
- WithinReason 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39692011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39692011
- teddyh 2y agoThat thread is decidedly unpersuasive.
- WithinReason 2y agoThe argument is completely dismantled.
- teddyh 2y agoNo it isn’t.
- WithinReason 2y agoIt's just a silly strawman. Almost everyone in that thread agrees.
- teddyh 2y agoIf that thread is so definitive, perhaps you’ll be able to reproduce some choice arguments from it?
- wolletd 2y agoI propose infinite timezones, you simply calculate the true noon from your latitude. Smartphones can do that for us. The time at your workplace would be some minutes off the time at your home. And when your phone is off, you are screwed. It's like in the old days before railroads when every town had it's own time, but even worse.