Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth?
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months agoI think if I had to wake up to the moon to write emails and make spreadsheets until sun up so my boss could read them in sunlight from their balcony I would cause dire problems.
person@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The point is that you would still wake up with the sun, you just wouldn’t call it 08:00, you’d call it 02:00 or 16:00 or… depending on where you live in the world.
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
That seems even more useless, then, because if I wanted to contact someone elsewhere on the planet, I’d still have to check the local working hours vs the local time.
Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
You have to do that anyway.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
So there will be no improvement by making a global change that needs everyone to agree to re-learn the systems they are already familiar with.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why is that better?
person@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Working on a global scale managing time zones can be a huge pain. Though most of the issues come from countries that decide to just change time zones, which happens more often than you might think.
On a personal scale if you, say, hear about an online event, then you would never have to double check time zones.
And on new year’s you would know that every human is counting back at the same time as you. Now isn’t that great?
The biggest drawback is that something changes. People really don’t like that.
Some phrases would lose their widely understood meaning, such as “9 to 5” or “me watching slime unboxing videos at 3 in the morning”. Shame, that.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What are you on about? Countries don’t just decide to mess with their time. And for the one a decade change you can just look it up. And I have no wish to count backwards with you people.
You are allowed to admit that it is a dumb idea.