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So, how do you schedule with multiple parties in multiple regions when everyone has their own time? Do we go back to the horse and buggy where if you called the town over at 5pm and they are 6pm but the are 20km away?
Whats the work around here?
Right now, everyone does have their own time. In the current system, if someone in Boston, at 3pm, were to call up someone in Seattle and ask what time it is, the person in Seattle would say noon.
OP is proposing a single time zone for the whole world. So when it's 15:00 in Boston, it's also 15:00 in Seattle and even 15:00 in Tokyo. It would make sense logically, but from a daily life perspective, it'd be pretty terrible - noon would no longer mean the sun is directly overhead, except for one small part of the world.
So OP is trying to start a fight. Who gets noon overhead? Because your gonna get shooting wars over that, or you're go na spend the rest of your life in the dark because corporate is on the otherside.of the planet and 0800 is start time.
I'm sorry I'm trying to start a fight? How did you interpret my comment that way?
It would definitely remove the concept of noon being around when the sun is at its zenith in the sky. I think we kind of have a shared idea of what a waking day is, so from that perspective this change is a terrible idea.
I actually think it would be kinda cool in a way to have people have different relationships with what "time" or "day" it is. I'm looking at it very optimistically when I say that though.
Why would it be terrible if noon is not when the sun is directly overhead? It's not like there's some natural law telling us that it must be 12 o'clock. So what convenience does it provide?
0 might as well be when you wake up and start your day, so you actually sleep during the end of your day, instead of a bit at the end and a bit at the start.
I'm not actually advocating for this. I just hate dealing with timezones. 🤷♀️
Well it sounds like younare trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist using a technique that is non viable.
You sure took it that way, champ.
There are problems that exist with the current setup. I've probably spent around a 1000 hours at my current job dealing with timezone issues in data.
Do you mean for example planning an online meeting? That would be way easier than now, right? Now everyone's time is called differently. In the proposed system, you'd just say "let's meet at 9". Everyone would connect at what is called 9 in their part of the world - easy. It would be different parts of the day for each of them, just like it is always at such meetings.
Hey, let's change everything about society because one person doesn't like timezones...
No one is saying we need to change society. We're having a fun discussion here. Calm down.
I am being calm. Don’t be that person.
Changing how the timekeeping system *works for the entire planet WILL change all of society and thinking otherwise is shortsighted.
Oh no, the adult entered the room, no more fun allowed. Yes, I like thinking about world-changing stuff. It's fun if you don't immedately reject it for not being realistically implementable. Try it, it's enjoyable.
Ah yes, can't have a differing opinion and voice it or I'll ruin your fun..
FFS.