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> Or, you know, it would just be something like "+6" (meaning 6 hours ahead of your time in their daily cycle), etc. That's re-inventing time zones for this ti
by jtheory 12y ago
> Or, you know, it would just be something like "+6" (meaning 6 hours ahead of your time in their daily cycle), etc.
That's re-inventing time zones for this timezone-free world, though, isn't it?
The problem is that timezones would still exist (as you point out -- that +6 must come from somewhere...), but because they would be unofficial and no longer standardized, it would be harder to know.
Every city would need to figure out "standard business hours" somehow -- because an awful lot of businesses talk to each other during their working hours. Neighboring cities would need to coordinate, somehow. But how would worldtimebuddy know whether to display "+6" or "+7" for a given city?
They can't just guess it on sun cycles; sunset in London varies from 4 pm to 9:30 pm, and of course some people live further north (or south) than that -- and "working day" hours aren't bound very tightly to sun cycles anyway.
- coldtea 12y ago>The problem is that timezones would still exist (as you point out -- that +6 must come from somewhere...), but because they would be unofficial and no longer standardized, it would be harder to know. Who said they would be "unofficial and no longer standardized"? They could be both, fully. We also have the perfectly official and standadized meridians, that are better handled than the ad-hoc timezones we use (that sometimes go over several meridians, use DST etc). The proposal is about getting rid of timezones in the sense of having a fixed, global time. Not about getting rid of timezone information completely. It simplifies tons of everyday interactions and calculations, and when one needs to know the other's "time in the daily cycle", it regresses to exactly knowing the kind of information we need to know now.