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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Timezones are only necessary if people demand that 12:00 be noon. This doesn’t have to be. Neither does the wall-clock time have anything to do with day length. Did you even read the comment you responded to?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    You guys are coming at this from different angles and talking past each other. The 4 time zones were created by the railways to cut down on, essentially, the infinite number that existed because every town had their own sundial and time. He's looking at it going from infinite down to 4, you're looking at it going from 1 up to 4.

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  • [+] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)
  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Either you’re illiterate or you’re a troll. Either way I’m done arguing with you.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The general suggestion is to just use UTC everywhere. Ask if you don't know what UTC is.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sundials haven't been relevant for a long time. We use network time these days, calibrated against UTC (and possibly represented as Unix time).

    Personally I'd likely think it was neat to switch to metric time (ten hours per nychthemeron), or kiloseconds (87.6 in a nychthemeron), or even swatch @beat (1000 per nychthemeron).

    Somewhat related, the English word for døgn (nychthemeron) is such a mouthful.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Listen it’s fine to be a tech bro but you need to get out more and realize that what is convenient for your Docker swarm doesn’t work when humans are involved.

    Get corporate to let you out of the engineer cave

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I'm very aware of what it means to be human, especially every time the daylight savings nonsense changes. But what the number on the alarm clock says when I get up doesn't mean jack shit as long as it's the same actual time of day.

    A sundial that has the numbers changed around is still the same sundial, and that's the point here.

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