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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.
UTC but 12 hour time? That doesn’t make any sense
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.
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.
Here’s an idea:
Let’s make all clocks where no matter what time of the year it is, 6am is always when the sun rises, noon is when the sun is exactly overhead, and 6pm is always when the sun sets.
Sure, the length of an ‘hour’ would be constantly changing, yeah that wouldn’t get super confusing real quick… /s
Cries in programmer while looking at northern Sweden
That’s more or less how it worked in premodern times. You didn’t start at midnight but devided the day into 12 hours, starting with the first hour at sun rise and the 12th at sun set. For (ancient) Rome, their hours were like 45min to 1:15h which isn’t too much a difference when you think about it. Also it isn’t a bad idea to work less hours in winter so you can experience the sun at all.
There really is an xkcd for everything.
Someone please ELI5 Daylight Savings for me? I simply can’t wrap my head around it no matter how many times I try to read any explanation about it. I don’t even know if my own region follows it (probably not given I would’ve understood it otherwise).
We add an hour or take away an hour from the time so that we can have more sunlight at certain times of the year
All my space cowboy duels are held at solar noon
I swear to god the only reason we have daylight savings is because some shmuck is making money off it
