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All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3272/
I love it when the occasional person comes through arguing that we should just get rid of time zones so it’s the same time everywhere. Always a fun discussion.
What about splitting each time zone into 60 parts, so they are in increments on 1 minute instead of one hour?
So You Want To Abolish Time Zones
Half of that looks like an American defending imperial measurement system.
it exists already. but besides that. what numbers are assigned to what sun location is completely arbitrary and a man made convention.
if my 7:00 turns into 14:00 my job will expect me at the new 14:00
We already tried that!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time