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In Discord you have Time tags for things like like "Are you free at <t:unixtimestamp>?". There's a well known tool called Hammertime [1] to make it easy to crea
by WorldMaker 7mo ago
In Discord you have Time tags for things like like "Are you free at <t:unixtimestamp>?". There's a well known tool called Hammertime [1] to make it easy to create those tags and copy/paste them into place.
(I miss Hammertime sometimes daily when using Slack at work.)
We could standardize such tools. We could make them easier to use like <mylocaltime:14:00> or <mylocaltime:3/2 2pm>. We have the technology (decades of date parsing experience and date math libraries).
Will we? Probably not. Unless we did something wild like move to 15-minute timezones and force ourselves to.
[1] https://hammertime.cyou https://hammertime.cyou
- hnlmorg 7mo agoThat’s handy. But who’s going to teach the other 98% of the worlds population who don’t use Discord and who aren’t good with technology like us?
- extraduder_ire 7mo agoI've gotten in the habit of giving times in UTC explicitly when talking to people in other timezones. Even if I give a time in another specific timezone. (All of my computers get a world clock with a few locations and UTC) A friend of mine works in a company with employees all over the world for 24hr coverage with handoff meetings where shifts overlap, seeing them do it for call times sold me on the idea.
- WorldMaker 7mo agoIt's still possible for the world to adopt something like Swatch Internet Time for coordinating across timezones/"without" timezones. Possible, but probably unlikely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time