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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

i still think timezones were a mistake, and that they shouldn't exist period. I have a long thread about this from an earlier post about timezones as well amusingly enough.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 47 points 7 months ago

As a social construct, I like that I can be anywhere in the world and know that around noon is probably an appropriate time for lunch, etc.

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 12 points 7 months ago

Time is an illusion, lunch time doubly so.

[-] rovingnothing29@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Is that where my sandwich went?

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

You life was an illusion, and you are the sandwich.

[-] dondelelcaro@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Unless you're in Tibet, Xinjiang, or another place observing UTC+8 with a significant offset from local solar time.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 7 months ago

They had their chance. Heck, they still have their chance. They will continue to have their chance.

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[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 43 points 7 months ago

Imagine you're watching a movie, and the main character turns over to their bedside clock and it shows 4:13 am. With time zones we all understand what part of the day that is and instinctively can relate to the situation.

Without timezones, every locality would have a different shorthand and cultural understanding of what times mean what. Or they'd adopt a second system that helps transcend that but that's just inventing timezones again...

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 12 points 7 months ago

I reluctantly agree with you. Though I think the reluctance is just because there's something in me that's viscerally offended by the concept of time itself (probably the ADHD)

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

actually, this is pretty funny. This is the ONE instance so far, that i've found where timezones actually do something productive, and it's in a movie.

Too bad movies never use shit like ambient moon lighting, or darkness. It's not like those convey what time of night it is or anything. I mean seriously, if you're bound to showing a clock to display the time, rather than make a point, you're not a very good writer.

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Too bad movies never use shit like ambient moon lighting, or darkness

Probably because people's beds tend to be inside... Plus darkness can mean morning or evening or middle of the night or something else (imagine the person notices it's dark, looks at the clock and it shows 1pm. We know something's off because we all experience 1pm as early afternoon).

The point isn't that timezones are only good for movies, the point was that they help convey that cultural understanding very effectively across the world. Having a common understanding of what certain numbers on a clock mean and have that be universal can help convey quite a bit of information. 11am means "late morning" in a specific way that you could probably spend a paragraph describing.

Sure, without timezones I'd know what their clock says in London without having to use Google, but I'd still have to Google what time of day it is there and apply an offset to understand exactly what part of the day it is (which is what timezones do already). It's no easier, plus we lose the ability to culturally share the same reference points.

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[-] okamiueru@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

Are you thinking about daylight savings time? I'd agree there, but timezones absolutely make sense, and we've always used some version of it. "See you at noon" has a sort of built in timezone, as does sunrise and sunset. We (all human societies) relate hours to the day in a similar, albeit more regular way. If you did away with timezones, you'd replace a minor inconvenience with a monstrous one. Everyone uses what, GMT? Naah

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[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 18 points 7 months ago

Time zones are fine. Daylight Savings Time needs to be taken out behind the wood shed and killed with a spoon.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 13 points 7 months ago
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[-] vfye@toast.ooo 6 points 7 months ago

I like it when i miss the train because town A's time is way off from toen C's time

[-] ashok36@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I honestly can't tell if you are pro or anti time zones from this comment.

[-] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

Nobody likes missing a train.
In this scenario, missing a train is caused by timezones.
It's sarcasm. So against timezones.
Maybe, against more granular timezones, ok with status-quo, but would be happy if all official correspondence happened with UTC.
Possibly completely against timezones.
Maybe a mix of all of the above

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[-] 1917isnow@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

I think it would be intuitive to people after a while

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