I think the compromise would be the country/region that proposes global time should get the +12h offset. If it’s not a big deal, then they can deal with such a large offset themselves and spare the rest of the world from the brunt of the pain.
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WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 7 months agoI think they mean concepts like morning and evening, or day and night would remain. The difference would be that in London, midnight would be 12:00am, but in San Fransisco, midnight would be… 16:00 / 4:00pm. Each timezone would have to adjust the numbers, in the same way the southern hemisphere considers January to be in the summer.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 7 months ago
HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
nah, a 12-hour offset is boring and easy to deal with. give them a 6-hour offset.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 7 months ago
12h offset is where it causes the maximum confusion to society because the date changes right in the middle of the day. In our personal and professional live, we never considered the date can change right in the middle of the day, causing wide variety of minor inconvenience in our daily life. Some examples of minor inconveniences:
- They’ll going to celebrate new year at noon. No more firework shows (could be good for the environment?).
- Is today your friend’s birthday yet? Or is it in the afternoon?
- should we celebrate christmas on 24th-25th or 25th-26th?
- and more minor inconveniences…
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
isn’t that just timezones with extra steps?
smo@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
That’s usually the case.
I live and work on London time. If I want to have a phonecall with someone in the Philippines, I have to be mindful that 9am for me is 5pm for them, so I’ll need to make the effort to start early to catch them while they’re still at work.
Without timezones: If I want to have a phonecall with someone in the Philippines, I have to be mindful that their working day is 1am to 9am, so I’ll need to make the effort to start early to catch them while they’re still at work.
I’ll still need to lookup when their working day is, I’ll still have to adjust/account for it, and I’ll still have to get up early / start work early to make that call. Getting rid of timezones doesn’t get rid of that +8 or the affects of that +8, it just renames how we communicate it.