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All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3272/
I love it when the occasional person comes through arguing that we should just get rid of time zones so it’s the same time everywhere. Always a fun discussion.
So You Want To Abolish Time Zones
What about splitting each time zone into 60 parts, so they are in increments on 1 minute instead of one hour?
We already tried that!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
it exists already. but besides that. what numbers are assigned to what sun location is completely arbitrary and a man made convention.
if my 7:00 turns into 14:00 my job will expect me at the new 14:00