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It's time to mentally prepare yourselves for this (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Obviously it would require some getting used to, but already people can't comprehend time zones, so that won't change. My grandma called in the middle of the night all throughout our three year stay in Australia.

[-] hikaru755@feddit.de 6 points 7 months ago

It's gonna get much worse when you start to try mapping days of the week onto the new times. Are days gonna be the same everywhere as well, to stay from 0 to 24? If so, have fun saying things like "Let's find a time on Wednesday/Thursday". People likely couldn't be bothered and would probably just use the day that their normal wake-up time falls on to mean the full solar day instead. At which point you could also just say okay, weekdays are still following local solar days. But now what weekday is it halfway around the world? Now you need to look up their solar day.

All this to say - abolishing time zones will introduce the reverse problem for every problem that it seemingly solves. You can't change the fact that our planet rotates and people in different locations will follow different schedules. Turning the lookup-table upside down is just a cosmetic change that doesn't remove the situation that's causing the confusion. I'd rather just stick with the set of problems that we're already used to dealing with.

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Fair point!

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

People comprehend days, they comprehend that their day starts at 00:00 and ends at 23:59. Calling to the other side of the world isn't something most people.do on a daily basis

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Not even that. I'm sure you've heard "it's tomorrow when I've slept", no matter what the clock says. Switching terms at midnight will cause confusion more often than not.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca -2 points 7 months ago

Are you high or just not reading what you're writing? Are you literally claiming that people will get confused when days start at 00:00 and end at 23:59, wherever they live in the world? Because literally no one in this world, except maybe you, is confused by that, because it makes intuitive sense.