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xkcd bot@lemmy.worldB to xkcd@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

xkcd #3272: Time Change

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xkcd #3272: Time Change

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All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3272/

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  • ClownStatue@piefed.social
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    I love it when the occasional person comes through arguing that we should just get rid of time zones so it’s the same time everywhere. Always a fun discussion.

    • TwentySeven@lemmy.world
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      What about splitting each time zone into 60 parts, so they are in increments on 1 minute instead of one hour?

      • ClownStatue@piefed.social
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        Fantastic idea!

    • ∃∀λ@programming.dev
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      So You Want To Abolish Time Zones

      • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world
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        Half of that looks like an American defending imperial measurement system.

    • WraithGear@lemmy.world
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      it exists already. but besides that. what numbers are assigned to what sun location is completely arbitrary and a man made convention.

      if my 7:00 turns into 14:00 my job will expect me at the new 14:00

    • gen/Eric Computers@lemmy.zip
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      We already tried that!

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

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