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It's time to mentally prepare yourselves for this (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

close, there's a regional local solar time (you could just steal timezones for this one) and then there is global time, which is what we go by for everything. Local solar time is essentially just an offset to the global time for the relative nature of local time to global time.

i like how whenever i mention this, people seem to think i want to get rid of time instead of timezones

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What you're describing is LITERALLY the system we have. UTC is a global, coordinated time that tracks solar time to a precision of less than a second. As far as my computer is concerned, my time is UTC (technically GMT, but they both refer to the same time) minus 6 hours. We all could choose to say, "hey, wanna meet for dinner at 3AM?" and have that be a normal thing to say in my area, and an odd thing to say odd in Europe... but nobody wants that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

yeah, my problem is that nobody use UTC. And we have problems like gas pumps in finland breaking because they programmed timezones incorrectly.