Non-IT News Thread

@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:

@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:

will America follow suit?

lol no

Sadly... Now if we as citizens just said screw it and stopped following this bad practice it would go away...

What is the most likely means of achieving this (since ignoring timezones isn't really possible for computers), is to do it a state at a time since we already have two that don't use DST iirc.

Obsolesce

@kelly said in Non-IT News Thread:

@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:

@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:

will America follow suit?

lol no

Sadly... Now if we as citizens just said screw it and stopped following this bad practice it would go away...

What is the most likely means of achieving this (since ignoring timezones isn't really possible for computers), is to do it a state at a time since we already have two that don't use DST iirc.

Write a letter to the President. Maybe he can add to his list, right under his "Build a wall" list item.

momurda

Why isnt ignoring TZ possible? All transactions done in UTC, no TZ data, everything would be so much simpler.

momurda

@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:

@kelly said in Non-IT News Thread:

@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:

@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:

will America follow suit?

lol no

Sadly... Now if we as citizens just said screw it and stopped following this bad practice it would go away...

What is the most likely means of achieving this (since ignoring timezones isn't really possible for computers), is to do it a state at a time since we already have two that don't use DST iirc.

Write a letter to the President. Maybe he can add to his list, right under his "Build a wall" list item.

He would say something stupid like "Back in my day, there was only EST and it was better than the 24 TZ we have today."

NerdyDad

Who said anything about getting rid of time zones? We're just talking about getting rid of Daylight Savings.

Time Zones functions as they should.

momurda

Theyre just as stupid as DST

Obsolesce

@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:

Who said anything about getting rid of time zones? We're just talking about getting rid of Daylight Savings.

Time Zones functions as they should.

Yeah TZs are needed. To keep time of day mostly the same around the world. Daylight savings is just pointless.

NerdyDad

@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

Theyre just as stupid as DST

So, what? We go back to clocks at the train stations? When ever the sun is directly over us, that is when noon is going to be? Everybody going to a single time would get confusing.

So if somebody in the UK wanted to arrange a meeting with me in Texas, they're going have to figure out when I am up and at work in order to attempt to schedule accordingly. Plus, what would make Greenwich Mean time so special that everybody should go to that? Because they were the first to establish the official time?

JaredBusch

@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

Theyre just as stupid as DST

Umm, WTF?
So who gets to decide where UTC is on a timezoneless world?

Humans are Diurnal and function based on daylight. This is why things like sundials existed before timezones were thought up.

There is nothing wrong with making "noon" be the local time when the sun is at its zenith for everyone.

Kelly

@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

Theyre just as stupid as DST

Umm, WTF?
So who gets to decide where UTC is on a timezoneless world?

Humans are Diurnal and function based on daylight. This is why things like sundials existed before timezones were thought up.

There is nothing wrong with making "noon" be the local time when the sun is at its zenith for everyone.

The other thing is that if you start setting your clock to a time sufficiently far away you end up performing activities in the same day (set of daylight), but are different days (calendar). Not really optimal.

Obsolesce

@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:

@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

Theyre just as stupid as DST

So, what? We go back to clocks at the train stations? When ever the sun is directly over us, that is when noon is going to be? Everybody going to a single time would get confusing.

So if somebody in the UK wanted to arrange a meeting with me in Texas, they're going have to figure out when I am up and at work in order to attempt to schedule accordingly. Plus, what would make Greenwich Mean time so special that everybody should go to that? Because they were the first to establish the official time?

I vote that noon for California is when the sun is directly overhead.... I called it first. You all are on your own.

NerdyDad

If you want to establish a timezoneless world, then why don't we all go to military time and get rid of AM/PM junk?

NerdyDad

Lets go one step farther, get rid of the Gregorian calendar and go by Stardates, like in Star Trek.

JaredBusch

You want to get into radical, then get rid of this stupid 24 hour day thing that mostly came from the Egyptians and the 60 minute concept that came from the Babylonians.

Move to a proper base 10 time system.