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The logical conclusion of going down that route would be to dispense with the concept of time zones altogether, and just revert to using local solar time.
by Gormo 2y ago
The logical conclusion of going down that route would be to dispense with the concept of time zones altogether, and just revert to using local solar time.
- crazygringo 2y agoWhich would make scheduling Zoom meetings or even just phone calls hell. Especially when everyone's half-hour blocks are misaligned with each other's so you can't even stack meetings efficiently.
- iggldiggl 2y agoAnd public transport timetables, which were the original reason timezones were introduced in the first place.
- mywittyname 2y agoThis is why I think we should entirely ditch the concept of timezones. Clock time, as we use it, is largely decoupled from solar time anyway, and all attempts to reconcile the two just lead to confusion. We already have terms a few terms to tie events to solar time, for example, a park being open from dawn to dusk. And without time zones, we might come up with a few more.
- Gormo 2y agoI figure everyone would just use local time locally, and unadjusted UTC for everything else.