I only see 1 chap in Glasgow at 1 am trying to sleep. Where are the others?

Are they in the dark part of the picture?

LIMMEH

Pretty sure the cloud cover is just to save processing power on the twilight rendering, much easier to just apply a static flat light source to everything

Wait wtf‽

Okay the city I live in has pretty much the same graph, and speaking from experience it's not as bad as you'd think at first glance. It's still dark at night, just for fewer hours.

Many people forget how far north Europe is because of the mild climate we have. Like countries like Ireland and Netherlands are as far north as Newfoundland. And these two countries rarely get heavy snowfall like Newfoundland. And Saint Tropez is on the same latitude as Vermont.

tomorrow is going to be the first sunset in kiruna since may.

here's an old photo taken sometime after midnight the 6th of june 2016:

Without timezones, not only would the whole world live on the same time, but also on the same date. So, the sun comes up at 22:00, and then two hours later it's the next day. So, which part of the world will volunteer to have their date change in the middle of the day? I don't think the world would ever agree on anything like that.

You're basically advocating everyone switches to to UTC which is kind of already used when organizing online events

I have an opposite yet equally radical proposal. Time zones are subdivided into infinitesimally small segments of longitude, effectively making them continuous. They are assigned to individual persons based in their current location on the globe and are updated regularly through geolocalization services like GPS. When you move, your time zone changes as well. Have a meeting at 10am? No, you don't. Living in UTC-8:00? It's UTC-7:58:33.0371 in your living room now. Going to work on your bike? Prepare for time travel. No GPS connection? The exhilarating sensation of timelessness.

This only makes sense for robots without circadian rhythm and for that we set the system time on servers to UTC and just read the timezone in your browser for display you needy meatpuppet

Especially in programming

Unix time or bust!

Proposal: have a shorter way to write "global time" (or you could have, say, 4 quarter-global times), the same way we have C, F and K for temperature, then make that a more common way of communicating time.

Yeah UTC kinda does that but nobody uses it like that. Shorten it to U and it's much punchier. Also abolish daylight savings, too confusing.

If you don't wanna bias to europeans too much, use the international date line.

I thought that too. The problem is that somewhere will have their day go through into tomorrow..... Which will cause so much confusion

We all know earth is a mobius strip.

That's also because the Netherlands are wildly in the wrong timezone. Especially during daylight savings.

Where I live we call that "sunset". Pretty exotic