Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? - eviltoast

And instead changing the time work and other things happens depending on where you are. Would be easier to arrange meetings across the globe. Same thing applies to summertime. You may start work earlier if you want, but dont change the clocks!

  • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    53·
    9 months ago

    I think if I had to wake up to the moon to write emails and make spreadsheets until sun up so my boss could read them in sunlight from their balcony I would cause dire problems.

      • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        82·
        9 months ago

        That seems even more useless, then, because if I wanted to contact someone elsewhere on the planet, I’d still have to check the local working hours vs the local time.

          • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
            9·
            9 months ago

            So there will be no improvement by making a global change that needs everyone to agree to re-learn the systems they are already familiar with.

            • Claidheamh@slrpnk.net
              36·
              9 months ago

              There will be an improvement of course. That kind of thinking is why the USA still uses imperial after 200 years of the metric system.

              • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                81·
                9 months ago

                How? What’s improved? I still need to look up what the local working ours would be in a certain area I’m trying to call as 9-5 in what is currently EST would be 12-8 in PST. That’s pretty much the same as checking the time zone difference. What’s changed? It would also create regional specific timing. If I’m from North Carolina and I’m talking to someone from Sweden, the idea of “waking at four thirty in the goddamn morning” would need to be translated into a local understanding of what that means. I think this would create far more ambiguity than it would eliminate and I’m not sure what benefit comes from it.