Pro@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 天前Why don't the whole planet just use UTC+00:00 / Universal Time without time zones?message-squaremessage-square199fedilinkarrow-up1127arrow-down149file-text
arrow-up178arrow-down1message-squareWhy don't the whole planet just use UTC+00:00 / Universal Time without time zones?Pro@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 天前message-square199fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarecally [he/they]@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36arrow-down2·16 天前That would make time more unrelated to the sun, which is pretty important.
minus-squareanonymous@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down6·16 天前We could just get used to the fact that in this location 6 PM means noon and in this other location it’s 3 PM It’s changing all the time anyway, so time is almost never aligned with the sun.
minus-squarechaospatterns@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·16 天前Sounds a lot like getting used to time zones. Just get used to it being 3pm there when it’s 6pm here
minus-squaredutchkimble@lemy.lollinkfedilinkarrow-up1·15 天前But with less mental maths required, not just time zones alone but with DST also. This way a guy says let’s speak at 9am tomorrow and it’s the same for both.
minus-squareEndlessNightmare@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·16 天前Yeah, the number on the clock is just a number. Does it matter if it says 12 or 6 or 20? That said, if we were going to a universal time zone, I would definitely get rid of AM/PM and do 24-hour clock.
That would make time more unrelated to the sun, which is pretty important.
We could just get used to the fact that in this location 6 PM means noon and in this other location it’s 3 PM
It’s changing all the time anyway, so time is almost never aligned with the sun.
Sounds a lot like getting used to time zones. Just get used to it being 3pm there when it’s 6pm here
But with less mental maths required, not just time zones alone but with DST also. This way a guy says let’s speak at 9am tomorrow and it’s the same for both.
Yeah, the number on the clock is just a number. Does it matter if it says 12 or 6 or 20?
That said, if we were going to a universal time zone, I would definitely get rid of AM/PM and do 24-hour clock.