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0 pointselaus1y ago0 comments

Found the German.

On a serious note: compared to the other inconsistencies, this seems like a very minor one. If we wanted to standardize time, we should agree on ONE timezone across the world. But of course that seems almost impossible: Having to convince 8 billion people on a change that has little benefit in their everyday life.

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noduerme1y ago

How would one timezone work? The sun sets at 8:00 in one place and sets at 20:00 on the other side of the world?

In terms of working or traveling between time zones, it seem like it would be much harder to remember the fact that, for instance, people in New York stop work when the clock says 17:00 and people in LA work until 20:00, than to remember that they are three time zones apart.

usrusr1y ago

IIRC the more serious proposals for a global time scheme deliberately abandon the old 24:60:60 so that daylight expectations, locally as they would be, would have to be re-learned anyways. Up to that point that doesn't sound that bad to me. But where i don't see any chance is durations, how many seconds/minutes/hours. I suspect that a change to duration units would be even harder to adapt to than metrification of lengths.

wolletd1y ago

I propose infinite timezones, you simply calculate the true noon from your latitude. Smartphones can do that for us. The time at your workplace would be some minutes off the time at your home. And when your phone is off, you are screwed.

It's like in the old days before railroads when every town had it's own time, but even worse.

teddyh1y ago

So You Want To Abolish Time Zones <https://qntm.org/abolish>

WithinReason1y ago

This is linked every time and every time it's debunked. It's silly.

teddyh1y ago

Feel free to link to said debunking. If it exists.

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