The Time Zone Rebels of the World
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The Time Zone Rebels of the World
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#2I was hoping they would talk of all countries using 'local times' instead of UTC.
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#3I am interested in the topic but the website has repeated loading failures on my iPhone. Fancy code drives away readers.
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#4They missed Newfoundland, which is on Newfoundland Standard Time: UTC+3.5
Are there any other fractional timezones?
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#5"Urumqi simply adjusted their operation schedules to reflect natural waking hours, therefore, a store may be open from noon to 10 PM."
This is exactly why I would propose a single timezone for the entire world. Time notation is just numbers, after all. Why we still attach importance to having 12pm appear at the middle of the day boggles my mind. Why can't we just have different parts of the world start at different sections of a day?
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#6They missed Newfoundland, which is on Newfoundland Standard Time: UTC+3.5 Are there any other fractional timezones?
India +5:30, Nepal +5:45 to name two.
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#7They missed Newfoundland, which is on Newfoundland Standard Time: UTC+3.5 Are there any other fractional timezones?
Darwin, Australia: UTC+9:30h
Others: http://www.timeanddate.com/time/time-zones-interesting.html
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#8"Urumqi simply adjusted their operation schedules to reflect natural waking hours, therefore, a store may be open from noon to 10 PM." This is exactly why I would propose a single timezone for the entire world. Time notation is just numbers, after all. Why we still attach importance to having 12pm appear at the middle of the day boggles my mind. Why can't we just have different parts of the world start at different s…
For global communication, it helps to form a mental model of the other side. When you pick up the phone to call someone else, knowing it's 1am there would typically indicate you should likely think twice before calling.
It's a crutch to enable a more convenient mental model for most people to relate to what time of day it is 'over there'. Otherwise, sure, there's no real point.
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#9I am interested in the topic but the website has repeated loading failures on my iPhone. Fancy code drives away readers.
It fails on my iPhone when I'm on cellular (T-Mobile LTE) with a 504 error. It works if I switch to wifi.
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#10When I was a teenager and more prone to rebelling against the shackles of conformity, I tried adjusting my desk clock and my watch to run on sidereal time.
It made it a bit more convenient when I wanted to observe a particular cluster or nebula to know when to take my telescope outside.
Everything else...not so much.