Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth?
pan_troglodytes@programming.dev 11 months ago
eh… do you really want to be scheduled to start work at 8am when 8am is mid-afternoon? me neither.
Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth?
pan_troglodytes@programming.dev 11 months ago
eh… do you really want to be scheduled to start work at 8am when 8am is mid-afternoon? me neither.
platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If we had a single time zone, we couldn’t use “am” or “pm”.
These mean ante-meridiem and post-meridiem. So, before midday and after midday. There would be no concept of midday linked to hours that could apply to all locations.
The most apropiate would be talking in 24h format. It wouldn’t bother me if someone said I have to wake up at 13 and finish my job at 21. These are just numbers.
But yeha, it’s still a bad idea because people would have to change calendars constantly because of daylight savings.
pan_troglodytes@programming.dev 11 months ago
yeah I see what you mean. you’d have to replace all 12 hour clocks world-wide though - and then accept that it would take generations for people to adapt. it’d probably never going to happen.