The world is cruel and ugly. There are plenty of justifiable things to be upset and distraught over. I don’t want to hear about those. I want to know what bizarre out of left field takes you have that infuriates you.
I’m still upset about Tenochtitlan falling and being buried. I’m a gringo, I shouldn’t have an opinion about Lake Texcoco being drained centuries ago.
Timezones are fucking dumb and I hate them
Unfortunately we need them: https://qntm.org/abolish
I am glad someone fleshed out their arguments some, but I still don’t agree. I think they are fundamentally missing the point. The sun position and a “time” do not, and I would argue, should not, be coupled.
I understand why we have timezones, but I’ve never heard an explanation for leap seconds that was particularly compelling.
I know that years and days don’t exactly match up, but as far as I’m concerned, whoever it is that’s being inconvenienced by the Earth being a few seconds out of rotation can go figure out their own workaround instead of messing up a million peoples’ daily rollup scripts.
Good news for you, the CGPM decided in 2022 to abandon the leap second by 2035.
I think you mean daylight savings time is dumb & you hate it,(?) which would be understandable.
Time zones however are part of nature.
Hating daylight savings isn’t weird, it’s dumb and everyone knows it’s dumb.
Timezones are arbitrary lines on the map that were made when trains were new and there was no good way to coordinate otherwise. We are way past that, everyone has an automatically synced and precise way of telling time on them pretty much at all times. The “time” is an arbitrary number. Noon is not when the sun is highest in the sky most of the year unless you live near the equator, midnight is rarely “the middle of the night”, 9 to 5 should be deleted, and have one universal time would be one step closer to uniting human kind.
Timezones are fucking dumb, it’s not the 1800s. I’ll fight to the death over this.
I’ve argued for this before, both on Lemmy and elsewhere. Nice to see someone else with the same take.
Do you also get the impression that people who disagree with you almost always fail to understand the argument?
Absolutely, I’m probably going to do a YouTube video or a podcast or something with a friend of mine soon, this has been a multi year debate and we got into it over the weekend about it lol
Found the programmer.