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[–] MicrowavedTea 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

As a programmer I would love that. But as a person it does make more sense to go "it's 4am in California, that person is probably sleeping" than "it's 11am, what is the sun situation like in California rn?"

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The best counter point I've heard for it is that a date change would happen in the middle of the work day for half the world. That does sound tough to deal with

[–] superkret@feddit.org 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Just abolish dates and use Unix Timestamp for everything.

[–] sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

"See you this evening at 1728326925, okay?"

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And abolish celebrating birthdays too?

[–] superkret@feddit.org 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No, you can celebrate your Arch installation anniversary once every thirty million seconds.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Birthdays could happen on the same interval as always

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Once every 31,536,000 seconds... And oh, don't forget to keep track of leap years..

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

As a programmer who works with people on both side of the pond, it often doesn't matter what time it is there, as they're not necessarily working standard hours anyway. They have families and errands and choose to work overnight essentially at random, so we've adapted to communicating asynchronously for 90% of our work.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Considering that there are quite a few people with unusual sleep and/or work schedules that doesn't help nearly as much as you would think.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How about 'the majority of businesses, offices, and people are active from 8-10 or whatever, so when my plane lands at 11:00 am in Tokyo, I can be reasonably confident that I will be able to do standard human business things' versus, what time does Tokyo wake up?

Also every city and even neighborhoods would end up disjointed and on their own system since even just a few miles can make a big difference on when the sun sets and rises.

Timezones were made specifically to link people that were geographically far apart, we had a time before time zones, and people missed their trains all the time because 9pm meant something to pretty much every single person.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Nobody is suggesting going back to a system where every little place has their own time. I am talking about having a single time for the entire world.

[–] MicrowavedTea 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I am one of the people with unusual sleep schedules. If you know someone well enough to know their personal timezone then you can use that regardless. It's still useful to know the hours a country usually operates in.