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[–] 24 points 5 months ago* (12 children)

The real answer is, the world should just run on UTC. No timezones. No confusion. When it says 12:00 UTC, it's the same time everywhere on the planet, regardless of the sun being up or not.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)
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    Actually a decent part of the world uses 24h scheme, and it works fine.

    While you're at it, adopt a logic date format.
    dd/mm/yyyy makes sense.
    yyyy-mm-dd makes sense.
    mm/dd/yyyy is an abomination

    Digest that, and when you're ready, we'll talk about your backward units system...

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I think it would take a bit of getting used to, but I would not be opposed to this.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I think it would take a bit of getting used to

    As opposed to taking a bit of getting used to twice per year at the beginning and end of DST?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I think it would be a bigger adjustment than that, yes. And, I imagine there would be on-going adjustments as some places/persons adjust their posted hours, either due to seasons changing the length of daylight or other reasons.

    But, I do think it could be an improvement with planning to change and hour back or forth twice a year.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    They kind of do that in China. All parts of China officially use Beijing time, even though the easternmost part is an hour ahead and the westernmost part three hours behind. In Xinjiang, they mostly just ignore it and use local time.

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