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Re:Let’s Get Rid of Time Zones, Not Just Daylight Savings by siraben on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:35AM (#26551763)
Relatedly, this blog post, "So you want to abolish time zones"[0] elaborates a hypothetical scenario of calling someone in Melbourne, and how complicated it would be without time zones (since if it's 4 am everywhere, what's the solar time in Melbourne)? I find it hard to imagine a time zone-free world in which you wouldn't also need a reference for when solar time happens in different regions, which would just end up being a messy version of time zones all over again.

Various global organizations and groups already use UTC to coordinate, so it seems we already have an opt-in solution for those who really need to abolish time zones.

[0] https://qntm.org/abolish

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Re:Let’s Get Rid of Time Zones, Not Just Daylight Savings by issamehh on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:18AM (#26552013)
How is that a messy version of time zones? If anything it is a clean version of time zones. All you need to know is someone's offset. There's also the added benefit of people that don't follow the same schedule being covered too just by having a different offset
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Re:Let’s Get Rid of Time Zones, Not Just Daylight Savings by bbatha on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @09:24AM (#26554650)
Maybe they’ll establish a body to define what those offsets are and assign them to regions so everyone knows what offset each other is in. They can call them offset zones... maybe there’s something catchier...
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Re:Let’s Get Rid of Time Zones, Not Just Daylight Savings by animal531 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:53PM (#26557182)
But we now have phones that can calculate that for us. We don't even need to break areas into zones, the phone can calculate their realtime for us based on their coordinates vs ours.
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