• pemptago@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    10 hours ago

    Team UTC. F* DST and TZs. I’ll go to work after the sun comes up at 16:30 if it means my watch remains unchanged and there’s no adding or subtracting when I make plans with someone on a different latitude.

    • NobodyElse@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      7 hours ago

      You’ll still have to add/subtract for plans with distant people to figure out when they’re awake and at work. You just won’t have the convenience of a familiar workday timeframe (9-5) to help you with the calculation.

    • frank@sopuli.xyz
      6·
      7 hours ago

      The best argument against that I’ve heard is that the date will change mid day for half the world

      • pemptago@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        30 minutes ago

        Fair point. Though it might help that the date would change, globally, at the same time. Our current setup is not flawless regarding dates.

        Currently, plotting daily events that happen before and after midnight, like sleep, is not straightforward.

        Also, anyone who stays up past midnight or works the night shift experiences this already.

        When scheduling with folks in drastically different time zones (one’s night is the other’s next-day morning) you need to account for the hour and the day. If an event is scheduled for the 2nd monday of the month it’ll be their 2nd tuesday, sometimes, or their 3rd, depending on what day the month starts on.

        It seems to reveal an issue that we use “day” to mean multiple things: the objective increment between month (or week) and hour, and the personal increment after a sleep cycle. Timezones muddle the two by adapting the former to resemble the later.

        • frank@sopuli.xyz
          3·
          6 hours ago

          Could make some transactions and programming a bit more complex. It’s not insurmountable, but not trivial

          • pemptago@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            22 minutes ago

            We already convert to UTC when doing those things across timezones. I believe starting in UTC would actually simplify it by removing that step.