Timezones are dumb and stupid, and you cannot convince me otherwise, so far the single best argument i’ve heard is “well actually, the hands on a clock and the numbers themselves roughly represent the cycle of the sun in the sky during the day.” Which is pretty good, until you realize that clocks tend to be circles, and you can often just rotate them. And suddenly, the numbers now match up perfectly. But i’ve also never once heard of someone caring about that specific feature, so uh. Good riddance frankly.

This is an interesting thought:

If we had UTC before we decided on a lot of modern standards - by whatever means we got it - I wonder whether it would have just evolved that Celts are used to the sun rising at 4-10 on the clock, but an Ainu is entirely used to the sun rising at 13-19.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

if we knew that people would be universally connected across the world, independent from the solar cycle. Than yes, absolutely this would have been considered.

We didn't know that then, we do know that now, and we also know that when gas pumps in finland experience a leap year, they stop working. It's literally Y2K but completely random, and entirely jumpscare based. You have no warning.

I mean i live in the midwest, in the summer i'm used to the sun setting at like 10pm. In the winter it sets at like 5-6pm.