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US/Canada time zones if they were not adjusted for political boundaries
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this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
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I'm in favor of global UTC, but the first argument is a really good one that I never saw before. You're leading me to reconsider.
Another potential solution to the mess of timezones does not work, shit.
Why is it a mess? I know from a programmer's point of view it is, I've seen the Tom Scott video a lot of times, but for average people it doesn't really matter.
Update to the video: they decided that they won't add a new leap second at least until 2035, and there are plans to switch to leap minutes instead, and sync to the astronomical clock once every century only.
Where it matters, e.g. international flight, they already use UTC for everything. How they solve this problem behind the scenes shouldn't affect the everyday lives of people. Computers use binary but we still use decimal system and noone want to change the numbering system. In a lot of places people use 12 hour clock in speech, but 24 hour in written form, and noone has problem with that. I don't understand why we should change it just because of the laziness of some programmers.