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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Without time zones it would be worse. Every little town would have their own time, calculated from their position

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

At least then everyone would be thinking about it and using UTC, not writing their programs to rely on the timezone always being the same

It's too easy a problem to ignore/overlook right now

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree, UTC for global is fine, might as well just do localized time as

Sun-up, 1st hour of the day, ,2nd, 3rd... Sunset for locale

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

For the afternoon We could count the hours until sunset

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