Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time...
by chimeracoder on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @05:54PM
(#30692325)
> Timezones don't try to be "correct", they try to be useful
This is correct. As engineers we can design the most symmetric and "perfect" system, but at the end of the day, if it's not useful, people will just adopt something else instead.
> If you want to argue hard science, you'll have an uphill job of explaining to me why there should be 24 timezones and not 1440 of them.
There's a good argument against having too many time zones (this article is about continuous timezones, but the arguments are still applicable)
This is correct. As engineers we can design the most symmetric and "perfect" system, but at the end of the day, if it's not useful, people will just adopt something else instead.
> If you want to argue hard science, you'll have an uphill job of explaining to me why there should be 24 timezones and not 1440 of them.
There's a good argument against having too many time zones (this article is about continuous timezones, but the arguments are still applicable)
https://qntm.org/continuous