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Re:I Switched to UTC and Never Looked Back by throw0101d on Sunday June 01, 2025 @07:29AM (#44150124)
> It turns out a lot of people are confused by flight times like “Wednesday 1:20am”, because if you are catching an 1:20am flight, you are heading to the airport on the previous day before midnight […]

If you use 24-hour ("military") time—00:00 to 23:59—this becomes less confusing. Perhaps an attempt to culturally shift from using 12-hour to using 24-hour time would be useful. (In the US it'd probably less of a challenge than metrification.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_representation_b...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Use_by_country

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Re:I Switched to UTC and Never Looked Back by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Sunday June 01, 2025 @08:23AM (#44150351)
Maybe it’s less confusing in practice but it’s not clear to me how in theory. It seems like the core issue is still present: an event so early in Wednesday’s morning feels like an extension of Tuesday night so one has to remember “Tuesday before I sleep” when the event details say “sometime Wednesday”.
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