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Why isn't this a popular thing?

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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 97 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Because we like midnight to happen at night, and noon to happen during the day

[–] growsomethinggood@reddthat.com 53 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

And you'd still have to adjust to local time anyway! Travel three timezones and now noon is at 9 instead of 12. Your alarm to wake up at 6, now needs to be at 3.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 40 points 2 weeks ago

Literally sounds a lot worse. Imagine telling your friend in Europe from the USA "ugh, I have to get up at 10 AM for work!" And the european responds with "10am is pretty late!"

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[–] zlatiah@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago

I believe no one else mentioned this but... China is a case study of why this is a terrible idea

The entire PRC uses the same time zone, even though in any other parts of the world, China should have been split to at least 3 different timezones

It is very disorienting to try and go for breakfast in Tibet at 9 am to find that nothing is open and the sun is just out... So yeah. Imagine if this is extended to 12-hr differences

Wikipedia has a nice summary of this

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 39 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

The cultural relationship with time is more important than its absolute measurement.

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[–] november@lemmy.vg 36 points 1 week ago
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