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And instead changing the time work and other things happens depending on where you are. Would be easier to arrange meetings across the globe. Same thing applies to summertime. You may start work earlier if you want, but dont change the clocks!

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[–] 121mhz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pilots already do this. Everything in aviation is "ZULU" time. In computers, we call it UTC or +0000. It actually works really well because we cross time zones so easily.

I would totally be in favor of switching to a universal time zone. But inertia is hard to overcome. Most people don't change time zones very often as they're usually far from population centers and people know that when they take a trip, that's when the time zone will change so for most it's not a daily concern and getting used to a new time zone model would be annoying. When you tell people about the US state of Indiana, they really start to change their minds, that place is fucked up.

Hint: Reykjavik, Iceland is a major city that uses UTC always, no Daylight Savings Time there. I always keep my second time zone on my watch and phone set to that.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We cant get Americans to use metric...

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One big argument I keep hearing is that it would be too expensive.
It's honestly not that bad. The estimated cost is around $350 million. Now, that might sound like a lot but when you take into account that it's about $1 per person it doesn't seem so bad.
Now, if you consider the military budget of $480 Billion per year it seems even smaller.
It would take approximately 0.07% of the 2024 military budget to switch to metric.

[–] Lemming421@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I imagine almost a bigger issue than the cost would be the... what's the American equivalent of a Gammon?... you know, those people that wouldn't change to Metric if their life depended on it. Four rods to the hogshead was good enough for their grandpappy and no filthy pinko liberal commie will get them to change. The ones that still don't wear seatbelts unless a cop is watching.

[–] HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a cool idea, but then you lose the local representation of the daylight cycle, which just complicates things again as you try to schedule things with people in other countries without knowing if it's their bedtime or not.

I play games with international friends and work with international colleagues, so I have my fair share of troubles with time zones. If anything, abolishing daylight savings worldwide would yield much better results.

On a side note, when scheduling events on Discord, I like to add in a unix timestamp that shows everybody their local time. Quite convenient!

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

It's a cool idea, but then you lose the local representation of the daylight cycle

We already lost that with our 1-hour time zones and daylight savings. Clock time is no longer bound to solar time, and I think we're overdue for the retirement of local time.

Managing geographically-dispersed schedules on a single unified time standard isn't any more complicated than trying to remember everyone's time zones already is, and would likely reduce confusion overall since unlabeled timestamps would no longer be ambiguous.

If some manager wants to shift their workers' schedule to account for seasonal light availability? Then just fucking do that and don't make everyone have to run around manually updating all the clocks.

[–] cloudless@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have GMT/UTC for that purpose.

But do you want to see your clock at 02:00 and say "time to go to work"?

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Apart from feeling temporarily (ha!) weird at changing a habit, no. I prefer 02:00 no more or less than any other arbitrary number, really.