Solar noon is the only real noon
Solar noon is the only real noon
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Most people seem to have a negative reaction to this, but I think we should all go UTC. Timezones are for suckers. My schedule at work is 4"pm" to 12"am," dinner is about 2, and sundown is currently about 3am.
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You and I are in full agreement.
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Except when you have to work with people geographically separated. Trying to figure out when their work hours are UTC, and when yours are, so as to line it up. Boom, you've reinvented timezones by a different name.
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No? UTC by definition doesn't know time zones.
Let's say the European goes to work at 8 o'clock UTC. The American in this example goes to work 6 hours later at 14 o'clock UTC. Both now exactly when the other one is in office. Time zones aren't needed here.
Time zones are an invention to keep the zero hour (for hour counting) at about the same local time - midnight. Midnight was easier to determine that UTC (or GMT). A peasant could do it in a day without the help of expensive tools everywhere on Earth. As a matter of fact almost each city in medieval times had its own local time. To get that sorted out they where clustered into time zones.
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The other use for timezones besides local midnight is the offset between geographical areas. UTC+2 or UTC+4. if I start work at 6 UTC and my buddy at 10 UTC, I know for scheduling purposes we are 4 hours shifted from each other. Whether you have to do math or not depends, but it is still a "timezone" by a different name. The only way to completely get rid of timezones is to ignore local time altogether.
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Except that in practice you're still adding people's personal schedules on top of the time zones, so just accounting for their personal schedules in UTC makes things easier.
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My company is fully remote. We use the working hours that people set on their calendar, because even people in the same time zone may not have the same working hours. My working hours start 30 minutes later than someone one timezone to my west.
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UTC but 12 hour time? That doesn't make any sense
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Then let me extol the virtues benefits of going back to a base12 standard for all our small number systems.
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