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Re:Europe pushing for lunar time zone by tengwar2 on Thursday March 02, 2023 @06:38AM (#34994578)
I'd say that the biggest problem with time zones is that most people confuse them with time offsets (which unfortunately is what you are doing). A time zone is a geographical area. That area can run on different time offsets - "times". So the UK runs on UTC in winter, and UTC+1 in summer. It's wrong to think of the UK as being in the "UTC time zone".

This may seem pedantic, but the confusion causes real problems with software.

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Re:Europe pushing for lunar time zone by mschuster91 on Thursday March 02, 2023 @08:48AM (#34995552)
> I'd say that the biggest problem with time zones is that most people confuse them with time offsets (which unfortunately is what you are doing).

The problem is, say, I have a colleague in Spain. I ask him for a meeting today at 0800 CET, which for him means sunrise was at 0746, while I in Munich have had sunrise and got woken up by the cats at 0652.

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