Why isn’t this a popular thing?

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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        2 days ago

        Trains still accepted that noon should be near the middle of the day. Time zones came from railroads trying to standardize time.

          • rezifon@lemmy.world
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            18 hours ago

            The proposed change to UTC globally does not change the accuracy of time measurements. I think it’s a terrible idea, but I fail to see how your point here relates.

            • SaltSong@startrek.website
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              17 hours ago

              The cultural relationship with time is more important than its absolute measurement.

              This was the statement at the top of this discussion. It values the local concept of what time should be over an objective measurement of what time is.

              The proposed change wouldn’t cause much of a problem. But the idea under the statement I quoted would.