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Re:Metric Time by rimliu on Thursday October 12, 2023 @09:19AM (#37856773)
Simple and useless. You can have any system you want for your personal use, but clocks and calendars are for colaboration. It's nice that you have day and night hours on the clock where you are. No you will travel a few thousand kilometers. You know your decimal time you get there, do you know whether it will be daytime or nighttime? You get there, and it is winter and the dark time is 3x of the daytime. Have you got any idea when anything opens and closes? And why have weeks if you don't have months. How about just numbered days?
Re:Metric Time by kybernetikos on Thursday October 12, 2023 @11:18AM (#37858418)
In the full version there is an unrolled map of the world down the side with the terminator drawn on which solves all those concerns.

Even if those problems were harder to solve its far more valuable to have a single time for your meeting than multiple times (depending on the time zones of the participants). The pain of organising international meetings was one of the reasons I did this.

Re:Metric Time by jermaustin1 on Thursday October 12, 2023 @12:00PM (#37859006)
UTC?
Re:Metric Time by kybernetikos on Thursday October 12, 2023 @12:12PM (#37859190)
Yes, my preference is basically UTC, just with some UX improvements.