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OsrsNeedsf2Plast Monday at 8:45 PM12 repliesview on HN

My dream world is everyone using 24 hour clocks set to UTC


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redfern314last Monday at 9:15 PM

My favorite depiction of your dream world: https://qntm.org/abolish

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boothbylast Monday at 8:57 PM

My dream world would have 86400 time zones, one per arc-second of the globe, so we can all sync our clocks at high noon.

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yen223last Monday at 9:23 PM

My dream world is we apply time zone logic to every other unit of measurement.

1 metre can be 100cm or 200cm depending on the season and your location

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gonzalohmlast Monday at 11:24 PM

And then it's going to be so fun guessing at which time each country in the world starts working

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alex_suzukiyesterday at 6:07 AM

Mine would use Swatch Beat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time I’m writing this at @296.77

wraptileyesterday at 2:43 PM

If only we had UTC 2.0 with UTC-0 set somewhere in the middle of Pacific or Atlantic - UTC would finally have cultural adoption. Setting UTC on GMT was such a mistake.

notnullorvoidyesterday at 1:22 AM

Mine too. People seem to have are hard time conceptualizing the hour as an arbitrary number, rather than having a static (usually incorrect) meaning associated with it like 12 as noon/midnight.

gbrielyesterday at 6:25 AM

My dream is everyone has a personal clock based on their GPS location and solar noon is always when the sun is highest overhead wherever they are. Go to sleep and wake up based on this clock and use it for nothing else.

SpecialistKlast Monday at 9:07 PM

Sounds good on paper, terrible idea in practice.

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karmakurtisaanilast Monday at 9:25 PM

Time zones are a pain, but it might be too much to fix.

Now, 13 month calendar with each month 4 weeks, on the other hand..

throwway120385last Monday at 9:38 PM

But if we abolish time zones how will we keep trains from hitting each other on the tracks?