• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 months ago

    Does Antarctica really need different time zones? Can’t the 12 people who live there just all agree that it’s time to fucking leave?

    • AnExerciseInFalling@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      As much as timezones are a pain (I’m a programmer who recently finished working on an international calendar for an app), I don’t think getting rid of timezones is a great idea. https://qntm.org/abolish

      I think a much better goal would be getting rid of daylight savings. THAT causes so much headache for little reason nowadays

  • MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    Honestly, we should just do it like the original model of zones worked: 1 time zone per zone of latitude, i.e. each time zone aligned with each 15-degree-apart meridian.

    None of this “Oh we used to be part of [Input Empire Name Here] so let’s keep our time zones the same as them.” Damned colonial bullshit…

     

    Edit: Longitude, not latitude. Lol. Was thinking it but wrote the opposite. Haha.

  • bort@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    5 months ago

    why not have a single global timezone and people change their local numbers.

    e.g. if you life in hawaii you stand up at 11pm and if people in russia work until 8am.

    • DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone
      1·
      5 months ago

      It already exists and is called UTC. I worked in an office that provided “follow the Sun” technical support, we had offices in France, Germany, Washington, New York, Australia, and everything ran on UTC time. Much easier to coordinate meetings and shift handovers. Took a while to learn to think in UTC time as well as local time, though.