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nomadygnt | 9 months ago

Yes! Whenever people say that we should have one timezone I always bring this up. Either you have to look up what time it is in another country or you have to look up what time of day it is. Either way you still have to look it up.

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nirvdrum|9 months ago

You may have already read it, but in case you haven’t, I think this post illustrates the challenges with a single timezone rather nicely: https://qntm.org/abolish

actinium226|9 months ago

Who are these people who say we should have one timezone?

ianburrell|9 months ago

Every time time zones are discussed here, there is someone who thinks should abolish time zones and use UTC.

umanwizard|9 months ago

The author of the article we're commenting on, for example.

And it's an idea that I see come up not too rarely on any post about time subtleties (time zones, leap seconds, etc.)