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Re:Time to Dump Time Zones by Dayshine on Monday November 07, 2016 @04:33AM (#12889839)
> "I woke up at 9 this morning",

Yes you do, you know he woke up possibly a little late, but didn't massively oversleep.

> "I woke up at 22 hours this morning,

Now I have no idea whether that's good/bad/early/late without a lookup table.

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Re:Time to Dump Time Zones by tom_mellior on Monday November 07, 2016 @06:29AM (#12890294)
> Yes you do, you know he woke up possibly a little late, but didn't massively oversleep.

As I tried to illustrate in the rest of my post, there are a lot of (cultural, and other) assumptions that go into this. If they are usually at work at 8, then sleeping until 9 is pretty massive, especially if a long commute is involved.

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