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But the world still spins regardless of how you end up talking about time - you will still need to figure out the human behaviour at the specific location on ea
by powatom 13y ago
But the world still spins regardless of how you end up talking about time - you will still need to figure out the human behaviour at the specific location on earth at that specific time. It is useless to schedule a conference call when the participants are all in bed. SUT does not solve this problem - people will still need to take into account the fact that night and day still exist and most people work during daylight hours.
- drdaeman 13y agoYou still have to negotiate when one's available. I.e. ask and tell time values - there's no other way of figuring out others' schedules. And this is easier when you don't have to do any calculations on those values. This is the part which SUT (and alike) solves.
- powatom 13y agoIt solves a problem which does not exist - people organise things based on an agreed timezone already. The pain of transitioning to SUT is not worth the (debatable) gains.
- telmich 13y agoActually I don't agree with you - I think if humans got used to SUT, they can (in their own time!) easily recognise the shifts around the globe. I.e. 2:00 SUT is the start of the day in Europe, 5:00 SUT is start of the day in US and 7:00 SUT in Asia. I believe that due to talking about the same time, people can more easy remember the other times. Compared to time zones, which are based on learning them by heart without a relation to your current time zone (only relates to UTC and your time zone to UTC again -> 2 calculations).
- powatom 13y agoYes, but you're missing the point - people talk about the time of day, almost universally in relation to the standard 9-5 working pattern that most of the industrialised world follows. What does 'this morning' mean in SUT? 'This evening'? 'I'll speak to you tomorrow'?