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Implementing RFC 3339 shouldn't really be that hard... (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by carrylex@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] DudeDudenson 30 points 4 months ago

What you're proposing is literally time zones but without shifting the actual clock, you still end up with all the issues and you remove the link between the hour of day and the sun's position for people lol

Plus who gets to decide that everyone switches over and what is the new global time?

[-] CodeBlooded@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

Yes, this is literally what I’m proposing.

You do not still end up with the same issues. Somebody booking a ticket for a hotel room to be available at 1300 from a different time zone than said hotel will not arrive at the hotel to learn that the check in time is different from their expectation.

Regarding “the link between the hour of the day and the sun’s position,” I’m asserting that we should recalibrate this expectation based on time zones, rather than changing the clock to some fictitious time based on “noon” always equaling “1200.”

who gets to decide that everyone switches over and what is the new global time?

“Global time” in this context is already decided to be UTC. And no one gets to decide on the switch. This is a dream that will never come to fruition. 😕

[-] netizen@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago

You're saying that in the U.S. you enter your office on Monday and exit on Tuesday?

[-] CodeBlooded@programming.dev -1 points 4 months ago

Yes. Many people already work shifts that have them do exactly that (show up to work on Monday, go home on Tuesday).

My first job had me work all sorts of shifts. Anything other than the day shift, I was showing up early or late evening one day, and leaving work early or late morning the next day.

[-] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago

Haha, let's inconvenience 99.9% of humans so some programmers have a slightly easier life. I've had my share of frustration with time zones, but this change is so enormous, that it's in no way appropriate.

[-] CodeBlooded@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don’t think it’s actually realistic that this would ever change at this point in the game. I do think we could have adapted to all using UTC if we never started with time zones in the first place.

[-] rhandyrhoads@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

The things is that time zones are a natural part of the earth. Back when people told time by the position of the sun, people in different places would naturally observe a different time. Should everyone around the globe have somehow established contact and said, hey one day we're all going to be in constant contact, could you change your sundials to read the time where I am instead of where you are? At the end of the day, although time zones and daylight savings time have created some slight variations on this concept, noon/midday was defined by the concept of the sun being directly overhead. Since the origins of time telling are based on the sun, there is no first place where we didn't start with time zones. Unless we somehow advanced as a society to create computers and the Internet without having ever created a system of time.