Proposal on implementing permanent time zones in the European Union

Post by disgruntledphd2 » Sat, Dec 02, 2023, 10:53 AM UTC

jonathankoren wrote: post #253

disgruntledphd2 wrote: post #227

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Look, a couple of hundred thousand people commute across the border on the island of Ireland and there's huge cultural issues around basically everything. The Republic of Ireland would never be in a different timezone to the UK as long as part of the UK is on the island of Ireland. It's just not going to happen.

That may be, but don’t call a neighboring time zone “friction”. I grew up next to Indiana, a state notorious for screwing up their time. (Scroll down to “History” and each decade for past 70 years.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana

Post by Tagbert » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 5:47 PM UTC

mklepaczewski wrote: post #196

Tagbert wrote: post #137

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Then you just need to implement a global system of determining how people's activities are aligned locally. What you end up with is timezones by another name. Timezones are a lot less of a problem now that we are using calendar apps to book events. Better integration of tools to negotiate availability would make that even easier. The problem that people largely govern their activities by the rotation of the earth and…

But why I need to come up with system similar to timezones? You translate all hours once and that's it, no? It might be weird at first have business hours from 9pm to 3am, but those are just numbers. I don't find it any more weird than starting a day at 6am.