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Horror story (thelemmy.club)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/science_memes/p/823862/horror-story

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[–] 27 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Now I'm picturing trying to conduct a video meeting with a 10-40 minute lag for the people on Mars.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    And you will love time zone conversions. A "day" on mars is called sol, it's 24 hours 39 minutes. So if the meeting is at the same mars time every sol, it starts 40 minutes later each day... Weekly meetings drift 4 and a half hours each week

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    You don't need to go to Mars to deal with timezones .. plenty of people right here who have absolutely no idea that half the planet is dark at any one time and still schedule global events in their colloquial timezone rather than UTC.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    And I experience that idiotic practice mostly from Americans and American companies

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Need satellites around each planet and around the sun for when earth and mars are on opposite sides of the sun and both people are on the night side

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