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I’m convinced we need to move to a world time. The Internet is part of life and we have people coordinating around the globe. Time is time everywhere. Sunli

I’m convinced we need to move to a world time. The Internet is part of life and we have people coordinating around the globe. Time is time everywhere. Sunlight is different everywhere. But not everything timed is tied to sunlight. There is no reason that the time should be 12:00 at peak sunlight locally. UTC is an issue near the international date line. I could see residents of Pacific islands wanting to not have the date change mid-day. Should think about adding hours 24, 25, 26, etc. to Wednesday that are equivalent to hours 0, 1, 2, etc. on Thursday. (And as a quant who did a lot of time programming for financial markets, fuck Daylight Saving Time and the leap second.)

kevincox 1y ago
The way I see it is you are deciding between making the instant very clear or making their "time of day" clear. But IMHO "time of day" is less important because 1. People in the same time zone still have different schedules so it is an approximation anyways. 2. If you know what instant is being discussed it is very easy for each person to relate it to their personal schedule. So I agree that switching costs aside using UTC would be better overall.