Oh I see now, opened the post on the hexbear website and it says "*removed externally hosted image*". On lemmy.ml it still shows the image though, so the removal is probably dynamic and doesn't touch the post in the DB.
It's an embed of XKCD 927: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards_2x.png
Not sure what you are referring to, the post hasn't been edited.
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So... you see what you get?
You are welcome. Forgot to say, for proper WYSIWYG you have to click the HTML-Tag button in the lower right corner.
(Just to be clear I'm referring to different markdown "flavours")
That tweet in the OP is bullshit.
Major spoiler for the ending
The last episode ends with the antagonist moving towards an apparently undestroyed New Vegas on the horizon.
Firefox supports this natively. Under "Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and Site Data" set the "Delete site data when Firefox is closed" checkbox, and use the "Manage Exceptions" button to add websites you want to allow.
It seems like it would be a bit confusing, though, if you had to relearn times whenever you travel somewhere (edit: and dates could flip over in the middle of a work day). But maybe you’d prefer that.
I'd prefer that over having to change clocks when you travel, and having to have knowledge about the location and possibly having to flip the date when you encounter a reference to a specific time, yes.
Before they were invented, it was literally just anarchy. People set it to match people they knew. That’s what I was thinking of, but it could also just be one place where noon is at 12:00 PM.
Yes, you would obviously do the latter. No sense it going back to the bad old days.
Well, there’s not a round number of second in a day, or days in a year, for example, since they’re all naturally occurring and arbitrary.
Days in a year ok (except leap years). But seconds in a day are round (discounting days with leap seconds). 24 * 60 * 60 = 86400, which is divisible by two. Did you mean they are not based on the decimal system? I'd be up for a decimal based time system and a reorganised calendar, but that wasn't the topic of discussion here.
And then the Earth turns at a subtly non-constant rate, and people have settled on a seven day week.
Yeah but none of that has much impact on the timezone debate.
If you do have timezones, it doesn’t make sense to be inflexible with them when they run up against geography or trade and cultural ties, so they’ll be curvy, and geopolitics will itself change over decades and someone will want to change which one they’re in.
Fair enough. I acknowledged this point in my other post, that there are historical reasons for timezones mostly rooted in administrative requirements. But I don't think this is a good reason to not adopt a better system per se.
All of this is a headache if you just want to do a calendar calculation.
Exactly! So out with the old, in with the new. Sure this will create some other headaches, especially given how deeply rooted some of the relevant nomenclature is in most languages, but the sooner we change this the less it will hurt. I see that it might be a non-starter given the inertia and disunity of globalised society working against it, but it still seems desirable nonetheless, to me at least.
I don’t think you could ever change my mind.
Fair enough, I still think you'd get used to it if it were to happen.
And when it does happen it’s usually clarified. In more automated contexts (e.g. a scheduled YouTube premiere) the software converts it automatically - the author inputs the date and time in their own timezone, and viewer sees the converted date and time in their own timezone.
My point exactly though, this is a whole lot of complexity we could just get rid of by using a single timezone, with the added benefit of that working without any automation or clarification. Next Tuesday 14:00? Same time for everybody, regardless of locality. Everyone will know what part of the solar day that is for them by habit.
When it does happen it reminds us that the date and time falls on a different time of day for different participants.
The complexity of coordinating different solar cycles is there either way and unavoidable. So why not use the simpler system?
Meet me here tomorrow at 01:00
Yes, semantic drift in these terms would be unavoidable, but I still see the long-term benefits to clarity outweighing the short-term costs in it.
Wundert mich leider nicht sonderlich. Kannte mal jemanden der gerne dritte Halbzeit gespielt hat (Fussballhooligan) und der erzählte es gäbe eine direkte Pipeline von da in die Polizeihundertschaften. Hobby zum Beruf machen sozusagen. Warum Leute für lau verprügeln wenn du jede Woche jemanden siehst der dafür Tariflohn bekommt?