Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth?

• person@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • person@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How about you do some research rather than dismiss everything offhand because you reckon you know better?

      www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/

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      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        How about you come up with a better idea?

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