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I would be happy if we got rid of timezones, got rid of daylight savings time, and got rid of 12 hour clocks.
> A joint international effort is now being launched towards achieving this Just pin it to GMT and call it good.
If the EU won’t bite the bullet and just adopt English as the official language, there’s no way they’re pinning this to Greenwich time
> A joint international effort is now being launched towards achieving this Just pin it to GMT and call it good.
This is fine to do while we are still talking about space missions and quick landings, but the moment there is a base and people start to live there semi-permanently you won't be able to just pin it to UTC and call it a day. Timezones are already bad enough in software. Having to additionally account for the moon would make people quit the profession.
> you won't be able to just pin it to UTC and call it a day. Yeah you’d have to call it 29.5 days. But joking aside, people live on ISS and use UTC despite their 90 minute “days”. What we should really do is just get rid of all this crap and go with metric time that starts at an arbitrary moment and isn’t dependent on location.
> A joint international effort is now being launched towards achieving this Just pin it to GMT and call it good.
If the EU won’t bite the bullet and just adopt English as the official language, there’s no way they’re pinning this to Greenwich time
This is fine to do while we are still talking about space missions and quick landings, but the moment there is a base and people start to live there semi-permanently you won't be able to just pin it to UTC and call it a day. Timezones are already bad enough in software. Having to additionally account for the moon would make people quit the profession.
The real issue will be Mars since their days are approximately the same as Earth.
> A joint international effort is now being launched towards achieving this Just pin it to GMT and call it good.
If the EU won’t bite the bullet and just adopt English as the official language, there’s no way they’re pinning this to Greenwich time
English is an official EU language is one of the (few) working languages of the European Commission (French is also used a lot). And the United Kingdom remains a member of the European Space Agency. GMT overlaps with European time zones, with countries like France being big proponents things like UTC (and TAI, and the metric system in general).
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If the EU won’t bite the bullet and just adopt English as the official language, there’s no way they’re pinning this to Greenwich time
Having English as the official language of the EU when England isn’t in the EU would be quite funny.
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> you won't be able to just pin it to UTC and call it a day. Yeah you’d have to call it 29.5 days. But joking aside, people live on ISS and use UTC despite their 90 minute “days”. What we should really do is just get rid of all this crap and go with metric time that starts at an arbitrary moment and isn’t dependent on location.
How about 1000 ".beats" per day? Swatch tried that, but it didn't catch on.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deviation_of_day_l...
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If the EU won’t bite the bullet and just adopt English as the official language, there’s no way they’re pinning this to Greenwich time
Having English as the official language of the EU when England isn’t in the EU would be quite funny.
