Worldwide Universal Time
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/02/12/the-radical-plan-to-destroy-time-zones-2/
>inb4 washington post
What a stupid idea.
>>52991116
Wouldn't this fuck business to hell? It's my idea that places like Japan would benefit from not having midnight be at the ass crack of dawn.
>>52991116
fuck off you filthy communist.
>>52991116
Why?
The sun rises and sets at different times, if you can't +8 or -10 from the current time why bother trying.
This is a great idea.
>>52991150
>Wouldn't this fuck business to hell
No, it would be great for business.
>>52991207
Explain nigga
>>52991116
So you just replace the confusion regarding time when it comes to travel with confusion regarding what that time actually means to people on each end.
Also, I'm sure everyone would like a system where they get to keep normal time.
The only problem is that there will be areas where a day change would occur during afternoon or something. Like it's Sunday 23:00 where you live and you just ate lunch, and all of a sudden it's Monday 00:00.
How mentally disfunctional can people be at this point? Mental institutions are required.
Lel enjoy having breakfast at 03:00 AM
>>52991116
I actually want this. I can think of a few problems though.
Won't happen. Too much of a monumental shift at the civilization level, as "good" as it sounds
This is autistic and i'm already utc
>>52991269
You would adapt to the fact that 3am was your local morning in a few weeks max
>>52991116
We should also fucking get rid of the retarded American AM/PM shit. A day consist of 24 hours. I hope you can count to 24.
>>52991116
What a great idea. Now instead of going to work at 8AM EST I get to say I'm going to work at Midnight UTS and going to bed at 11AM UTS while some guy on the other side of the world wakes up at 10AM UTS for his job at Noon UTS.
Makes life so much easier
>>52991362
>a day consists of 24 hours
It does not.
>>52991116
this is neither new nor interesting. you are a retard
>>52991416
>Instead of going to work at 8AM EST, I go to work at 0, and go to bed at 11, while some guy on the other side of the world wakes up at 10 for his job at 12.
I don't see the problem. It's not like work hours don't have some degree of variance anyway, even within a timezone, especially when it comes to people doing shift work. At least now someone from another country can tell me they're leaving at 4, without me having to ask what their timezone is, double check it incase they got their offset from UTC wrong (especially as daylight savings is a thing), and convert it to my local time.
>>52991362
>>52991445
Agreed, a day consists of 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59.¯9 seconds
0 to 23 is still 24 numbers, however, so don't think you're getting off easy.
>>52991116
>basic arithmetic is hard
I propose we use unix time in our daily lives.
>>52991580
I like being a stingy bastard, but precision is also important.
>>52991362
AM/PM is a good idea with no downside faggot. It only isn't a good idea when idiots don't specify, but usually (in english) you can easily infer which it is anyways.
>>52991269
but 3:00 AM is just an hour, what does it have to do with your sleeping cycle or perception of day and night?
>>52991116
nice b8 m8
>>52991602
>time ends in 2038
>>52991116
This doesn't fix anything. It just creates a different kind of timezone (differences in these new timezones being what times relate to sunrise and sunset) and then doesn't officially recognize these new timezones.
On top of this, seeing as these new pseudo-time zones don't have official borders, you would be looking at a virtually infinite amount of new timezones.
This doesn't solve the problem, it just ignores it.
>>52991704
>64-bit computers
>the max number is under 100,000,000
What
>>52991516
>shifting responsibility of managing time throughout seasons to individual businesses
No one wants this.
>>52991362
Europoor here, we don't say 14 o'clock, we say 2 o'clock and everyobe know that we mean 2pm. If its in the morning we say 2 o'clock in the morning or at night. No confussion till now.
>>52991116
I already live in a UTC country so I don't care.
>>52991760
Well that's good because nothing stops governments or local councils from setting standard opening/closing hours just like they already do.
>>52991740
Most embedded devices are not 64bit. There are also plenty of old shitter 32 bit software and alike running in corporate being they are to lazy to pay to upgrade software.
>>52991815
And then you just caused what >>52991724 said and made infinite number of pseudo timezones.
>>52991116
You expect the average joe to follow this when most can't even into basic arithmetic?
>>52991254
This seems like the biggest problem, considering birthdays/special holidays would start halfway through the day in some parts of the world. Having Christmas day start at say 2pm and then finish the following day at 2pm would be dumb af senpai
>>52991832
But those computers won't be used by time 2038 comes around
>>52991672
>>52991116
kek at ameritards
>>52991116
I've thought about this before. I'd love to have UTC be the new standard, but normies and feminists will never do this. USA won't even accept the metric system. USA still has antiquated bullshit like black history month and women's suffrage.
>tfw we ain't never gonna get beautiful UTC within our lifetimes.
>>52991116
That's fucking stupid. Why change what we already have? Shit just works. The dumb faggot who wants this also wants to change the calendar.
>>52991832
I still don't see why we wouldn't just add one more file that increments when the other overflows. Simple, works.
Already done
UTC
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>>52991580
But that is exacly 24 hours.
Unless, of course, time is not uncountably infinit...
>>52991116
Let's keep the standard time in us-east please. Fuck UK
who /GMT+1/ here?
>>52991116
As a web developer I can confirm this stuff would be fucking beneficial. I cannot fathom how many hours I have wasted because of time zone related problems and bugs.
>>52991116
A large portion of the world's population would have to become nocturnal, which isn't happening
Globalist piece of shit.
>>52993009
>Vote Trump
>>52993035
>vote Bernie
>>52993009
I'd love for everyone to unite and get rid of all the evil, but that's just impossible. I'd love for aliens to sweep our planet just for that slight moment of unity only to fall into despair due to not funding science.
>>52991672
Why not have WI SU SP FA month grouping
It's 3rd month of SU day 20 10.50 AM
>>52992981
are you retarded m8
>>52991256
The problem is retards think they are sane
>>52991704
What if it was a prophecy?
>>52991116
>Work 9 to 5
>It's the night shift
>>52991116
Bullshit.
>go to another country, it's 14h, night now
>4 hours travel
>It's 23h, day on another country
>have to learn the time routine of the country
It would be amazing, but most people would have a rough time transitioning into it.
Just look at half the posts in this thread, kek.
I hate how early the sun sets in my city since I'm right on the edge of a time-change
If I drive 10 minutes east, then I have an extra hour of daylight after work
fucking bullshit
and don't get me started on DST
>finally after months of coming home in darkness the sun is visible after work
>NOPE fuck you roll back that clock good goyim
>we can't be having you outside after curfew
>>52991245
This.
Doing this would render clock time meaningless. How hard is it to add and subtract anyway?b
>>52991116
>Worldwide Universal Time
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>>52993217
>working in fairbanks
>>52993380
>says he values freedom
>keeps wageslaving
kek
>>52993413
>implying NEETdom isn't slavery at the govt's teat
>>52993413
I love it when NEETs try to justify their miserable existence.
You'll just be another suicide to clean up once you hit middle age.
>>52991254
Then let's get rid of days too! Weeks, months and years? Who needs that? We've got Unix time!
>>52991772
That's a lie, some languages do actually say the 24h time. Like french (c'est quatorze heurs)
>>52991224
Current system:
"Yo Nigs, CEO of Nigs Co here, you wanna meet on a conference call?"
"Fo sho dog, lets meet at 4 o clock"
*at 4*
"Yo where you been, I been waitin like 2 hours now"
"Damn nigs, I got the time all fucked up."
New system:
"Yo Nigs, CEO of Nigs Co here, you wanna meet on a conference call?"
"Fo sho dog, lets meet at 4 o clock"
*at 4*
"Yo dog, that was a fly meetin, we gon be rich motha fuckers one this plan goes though."
"Shit yeah, glad we all use da same time dog."
>>52993434
>>52993481
32, freelancing, 5 hours/week (per week, not per day) covers my expenses
no outside schedule whatsoever except for occasional calls with customers - which is not even every week
try again
>>52993506
Imagine how badly that would scale on distant planets
Gibe atomic baseline time pls
>>52993540
It's not hard to cover your expenses on 5 hours a week when your parents pay the rent and bills.
That's a fucking dumb idea.
>>52991116
I think we need to start expanding to other planets/moons for it to have a chance
then you'll probably have your 'local' time, and the 'system' time
local time is pretty much the same as now, and 'system' is unified throughout all inhabited worlds, space stations etc
BTW, I'm curious what time do guys up at ISS use
and also what they had at Mir and (what was that American space station name, Skylab?)
>>52993540
>no retirement savings
You are supposed to work hard when you are young so you don't live out your retirement in misery
>>52993562
I live separately (and alone, at the moment)
last I saw my parents was uh... around Christmas?
>>52993506
This could be fixed if Nigs Co planned their business in PST, there is no need to use a universal time.
>>52991116
I evangelize switching to UTC too.
>mfw people don't understand the difference between GMT and UTC. ONE IS A TIMEZONE THE OTHER IS A TIME STANDARD HOW DO YOU PEOPLE DRESS IN THE MORNING
UTC/GMT already exists.
>>52993596
you can't unify your hypothetical 'system time' because of relativity
it's literally impossible unless you are able to accurately map space-time between all points of reference
If you are able to do that you might as well propagate a universal time dependent on the speed of light since you will have had to measure c between the two points to derive space-time
>>52993658
This.
>>52991269
Why are idiots like you allowed to post here?
If I snuck into your house and switched your clock back 5 hours so when you woke up it said "3 am" you would just go back to sleep for 5 hours?
baka desu senpai
>>52993608
well, 5 hrs is minimum to survive, not what I'm actually doing
but you're right
got me a wee bit of fat by now
2007-2009 were turbulent, 2010 was straight up hell, I've been recovering (and relearning a bit) since
planning to move on now - that's why I'm coming here more often lately
all shitposting aside, some good ideas come up here from time to time
>>52993692
You wouldn't?
>>52993692
Not him and not actually caring about what figure my clock displays when I get up but you make it sound like you'd get up at three in the morning simply because you woke up. That's absurd, you'd crash before lunchtime and you'd almost certainly have to go to sleep after coming home from work.
wew, I sure want to eat breakfast at midnight
>>52993624
Dear California,
Stop trying to force your faggot ways on the world.
Thanks
>>52993766
But it would be light out... It would be like it was 8am before the timezone change. So I'd have light, a full night's sleep, why wouldn't I get up?
>>52993773
I really hope all these similar comments are just "pretending to be retarded" trolls.
>>52991116
If you've ever used the internet a little more than a few Google searches and porn, you'd know that this system is bound to come and would solve a lot of completely stupid problems.
In the past, many European cities were in their own 'timezones'. This wasn't a problem until railroads started to show up and the increased speed of travel for difficult with all the different time zones.
This time, instead of Europe, the stage is the entire world, instead of people, we're moving pure data, and instead of the trip taking a couple hours, data moves practically instantly.
On another note, time units are about the only units that don't play nice with the metric system. How about we replace the units when we replace the timezone system?
>>52993835
it makes sense for business but I can't imagine this actually being implemented
>>52993835
>On another note, time units are about the only units that don't play nice with the metric system. How about we replace the units when we replace the timezone system?
> Europors can't handle anything that isn't just multiplying by tens.
This is why you will never be a world leader EU.
>>52993835
There is already a world time. It's called epoch.
>>52991116
never
>>52991116
>GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY CLOCK
Isn't this what Swatch tried to do with .beats?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
Stupid idea. Nobody wants sunrise to happen at 16 o'clock.
When Islâm dominates the world.
>>52994996
>Nobody wants sunrise to happen at 16 o'clock.
retard
>>52993905
There's a reason time is counted in 12 hours (protip: you can divide 12 by 2,3, & 4. Since there's 60 min in an hour we can also divide by 5).
>>52995347
>we can't divide 24 by 2, 3 or 4
It's time to end yourself.
>intercontinental communication made easier
>release dates get a definitive release time
>no more jetlag
>phones can use factory settings and don't need to connect to the internet to get the correct time
i can only see benefits to this
>>52995392
What? I was assuming the Europoor wanted to count time in tens.
>>52991116
You one worlders all need to kill yourselves.
>>52993596
All NASA missions use Central Standard time because that's what Mission Control in Houston uses. The Russians use Moscow Standard Time. I believe SpaceX typically uses Pacific Time, as their mission control is in California.
Great idea. That way we can laugh at amerilards for going to bed at 6 AM while we pure-blooded Europeans go and conquer the world.
>>52993312
China has one time zone.
This already happens there.
>>52991832
Even in embedded devices you can store a 64-bit number. The processor word length has nothing to do with the size of numbers that you can store, it just means that your compiler will have to do some extra stuff while building for the 16-or-however-many-bit processor.
>>52991116
neat idea, but much like 28 hour days, no one likes change...
>>52995418
Jet lag has everything to do with the position of the sun in the sky, not whatever the local clocks say.
Phones will still need to connect to the Internet because they have shitty, inaccurate clocks that need corrections
>>52991116
The CHICOMS literally did this already. China used to be like 3 time zones before Mao chimped out.
Now it goes dark at like 2:00pm in one part of the county.
>>52991116
I can understand the time change to Universal Time, but fuck his calendar.
>no more jetlag
fuck yes
>>52995595
>not manually adjusting your circadian rhythm by dosing melatonin
i thought this was /g/
>>52991116
No one is this retarded.
>>52991116
>>52995528
That being said, just get rid of daylight savings time... Timezones aren't that hard to figure out... (plus, lots of places go by that GMT thing anyway, and you can see how well that works... Course again, most of the time that is screwed up by DST)
>>52993506
Current System:
>We're having a meeting today at 4
>Send meeting invite via email
>Outlook automatically converts the timezone when it's added to your calendar
>mfw wouldn't have to change a thing
Feels good living in GMT.
>>52995480
Thanks!
>>52993486
Also German (es ist vierzehn Uhr)
>>52991269
I do this anyway senpai
>>52995595
What do you mean no more jetlag?
Countries will still do all their shit at the same times as they currently do, it will all just be in UTC instead of +/-
>>52991116
Sure, genius! Great idea! Let's abolish all time zones!
But guess what, every one and every country will convert the "One And Only" time zone in "current local time". People will still have lunch at 12:00 in their local time, even if it's officially 0300 AM. People across countries will refer to their local time when discussing about duties.
In the end, nothing won't change; you'd simply impose UTC as "official time".
Time zones are irrelevant and conversion are easy. The earth isn't fucking flat FFS
>>52995595
>leave China at 2pm Tuesday
>arrive in the USA 3pm Tuesday
>>52993624
Living in Europe, why the fuck should I care about PST
>>52996088
>every one and every country will convert the "One And Only" time zone in "current local time"
The whole fucking point would be not to convert. Are you mentally challenged?
>>52996113
Every single human being would convert __even in cases where currently they aren't ATM converting__
Are you physically retarded?
>>52991116
Count me in
>>52993486
>>52995928
in Russian 24h is more official, and 12h is more colloquial
>>52996137
>Every single human being would convert
Except the Brits and Tenerife
>>52991116
>>52991116
We can't go to universal time because then the song "It's Five O Clock Somewhere" no longer makes sense.
>>52991150
Why? Just because it would be called "midnight" (though they should just call it 24 or something) doesn't mean it would have to be treated like the old midnight.
>>52995815
Who the fuck uses Outlook?
>>52996184
Every company or organization that is big enough to need to coordinate meetings across time zones.
>>52996184
Everyone who has a job.
>>52993506
Can you please fuck off with your nigger speak.
>>52991116
>People are too retarded to perform addictions/subtractions
>Let's fuck my TZ up and let's fake 23:00 at 10:00
Sounds so reasonable
What a stupid stupid idea.
>>52996184
>>52993650
This reminds me of Ky and Sol/Slayer from the Guilty Gear series.
>>52993650
>this is the difference between GMT and UTC
Shut up, kid
Why does it matter?
Norway is cold and dark 24/7 anyway.
>>52997541
Nobody gives a fuck about Norway
>>52991684
if you read that a bomb exploded in a different country at 02:00AM local time - you know it was at night, most people where asleep etc
if we're using single universal time they would print 2:00AM your time so what time of day it was for them - morning, evening, night...?
without google you have no idea since the numbers don't carry meaning they do now.
the most important information implied in our current time is the actual astronomical part of day/night cycle we all have a feel for - 9:00 is in the morning, 13:00 lunch time, 22:00 is late in the evening
>>52993905
>can't handle
why don't you walk to work? can't handle it?
why don't you cook all your food on an open fire? can't handle it?
making mundane tasks easier is good
>>52996184
Any company that isn't some LOL Startup with no product who only exists to hopefully get bought by Google.
IE Real companies.
>>52995815
>>52996184
Google calendar and probably apple calendar do it too
Pretty sure ics invites are in UTC
>>52998533
I live 50 miles from the office.
And using a gas stove is an open flame.
Checkmate atheists.
>>52991580
>This period of rotation is about 4 minutes less than 24 hours (23 hours 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds)
>>52996207
Yo dog, U bein racist to me? Cuz I fuk u up.
>>52991943
You wish
>>52993506
>Current system:
Let me perform 4 + 3.
I understand this is hard for niggers, but literally everyone else is fine.
>>52998640
Still no reason to use an inferior system.
>>52998640
>Let me perform 4 + 3
> Doesn't perform it
You must be one of these niggers you keep going on about.
>>52991116
this is retarded, it would practically render the idea of keeping time stupid
>>52991580
.999999999 to infinity = 1
>>52994493
As apple has proven with the latest ios retro-theme, the epoch time is not good for business
>>52994583
achmad plz
>>52993483
The only correct answer
UTC everywhere would be irritating as fuck. You're having breakfast an hour after the sun comes up and all of a sudden the clocks ticks from 23:59 to 0:00... and the day changes from Monday to Tuesday. It'll be the AM/PM bullshit all over again.
You would have to fix the fucking day system too, because it's useless if you can't block out time semantically for generalized daytime and nighttime.
>>52998759
Depends on the topology
>>52991269
>AM
>>52991116
While we're at it let's get rid of the 60 second minute, 24 hour day, 28-31 day months, and leap year bull shit.
>>52999010
That would be too expensive, you'd have to literally throw every single clock into the trash. Whereas just implementing worldwide UTC you can keep all your clocks.
Same reason pipes and accessories are always measured in inches and shit.
This is dumb who will Ahmed sell his CPU soldered clocks too now?
Are we getting trolled hard?
We already have GMT (it's a timezone but it used to be a standard).
Anons claiming that there will still be two types of time are correct.
I would personally use local time unless specified otherwise by using GMT.
Imho everyone should be taught in school how to calculate timezones to GMT and back.
Examples:
>I live in the netherlands (GMT+1).
if you do not know where the netherlands it, then the GMT+1 will give you an approximate location longitude.
>at 4 o clock
Local time, used when everyone who hears this is in that timezone.
>at 4 o clock GMT+1
Time in a specific timezone, in this case middle europe.
>at 4 o clock GMT
4 o clock at GMT.
>>52991116
This isn't like establishing a universal currency, the sun is physically in a different spot for each time zone.
>>52999106
Good luck convincing Americans to use GMT+5, GMT+6, GMT+7, GMT+8 instead of EST/CST/MST/PST
>>52999106
For example, 4chan's servers are set at GMT-5, i live in GMT+1, so i know the difference is six hours.
there is a "standardized" time in this equation; GMT.
When i set up a new LAMP server, then it's on GMT by default, why change that serverside?
We could let the client's machine compute the local time, or maybe let the human client compute it.
I can read timestamps very well if they are GMT and i need GMT+1 time, it would be a lot easier for anyone if time typed or written down would be guaranteed GMT.
>>52999106
Yeah, if they want to do something useful try getting rid of Daylight Savings Time. Having places change timezone for half a year and tons of them doing it at different times is terrible. Way more of and issue than the a few countries here and there changing what timezone they are in occasionally due to politics.
>>52999317
Instead of GMT use UTC instead. Since GMT can mean UTC or UTC+1 in daylight saving time. Source of confusion. And of course we should just fucking dump DST already.
>>52999307
GMT+/-[1-12] at least reveals the difference with GMT.
I don't know what EST/CST/MST/PST/PTSD/STD as time offset.
The problem is that when you say to an american "12:34:45 GMT+1", he/she must first calculate 12-(1+localOffset).
americans are known to have faulty logic so the calculations will not be accurate for them.
If i was in charge i'd force a decimal system onto the time measures,
>>52999371
And also the problem that DST kicks in at different dates in the US and Europe and possibly in Asia too.
>>52999341
YES PLEASE
>>52999371
What time is it?
I live in GMT+1 and i want to know the time here and at greenwich.
I also want to know what timezone 7:58 is right now.
Why is this a big deal? The entire world uses the same calendar, It's summer right now in Australia and the world hasn't gone to shit. China spans 3 time zones, has one official time and it works just fine. I have no idea why America has more than one time zone it's fucking stupid.
>>52999341
Russia di gut rid of it once. People were super mad and demanded it back.
Guess why?
Because people like to wake up when the sun is shining, waking up and seeing dark night sky, going to school/work, spendingthere entire day and then going back when it's already dark again it just fucking sucks,
>>52999438
We are in standard time now, so GMT=UTC, and thus GMT right now is 23:02. In summer time however, GMT=UTC+1.
Here's a nice map to quickly find out where it's 7:58 right now. https://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
>>52999497
Murifats can't deal with driving around in one timezone and having changing timezones across the border.
They'll even elect the first idiot who claims he can keep the shifting timezones away as president.
>>52999526 (me)
And you're country is in GMT+1=UTC+2 in the summer.
>>52991116
This is stupid, it'll be midnight while the sun is still up where I'm at.
>>52999526
The whole idea of universal time is that you don't need nifty little maps.
I can tell you without using any tools that 8:06 is between india and korea.
>>52999555
ctually you'll just need to get used to thinking 2hat 23 hours of global time is the morning, 3 is when you go to work and so on.
>>52993483
>people can't learn any history from before 1970
>>52999553
The same location having different UTC offsets is plainly retarded to standardize.
We should >>52999341
>>52999575
Yeah, I probably could've guessed too.
I think for cultural and social reasons it's important to have local time.
That said, an universal time for systems and whatever administrative shit is nice. But I thought GMT is already that.
This would only benefit pencil pushers and NEETs
Time zones are important for farmers, construction workers, and pretty much anyone who has a need to go outside.
>>52999591
int64 unix_time = (2^63)*-1
>>52999497
>I have no idea why America has more than one time zone it's fucking stupid.
Yeah, a country with 6 different timezones should shift to just one, no possible downsides to that.
>>52999605
You're right, except lots of people refrain from using GMT when it is actually useful because nobody taught them that in school.
I will use UTC whenever i can.
>>52999611
>Time zones are important for farmers,
I hear this shit a lot what is so fucking important to them fucking plants don't care what time it is.
>>52999619
America only needs one timezone. It works perfectly in China, a much bigger country US.
>>52999619
Would you like some fries with your salt?
>>52993506
"Be there at 16:00 UTC"
"ok"
I can tell none of you take more than 10 flights a year. Time zones are fucking horrible.
>>52999512
>Because people like to wake up when the sun is shining, waking up and seeing dark night sky, going to school/work, spendingthere entire day and then going back when it's already dark again it just fucking sucks,
Guess what? This is little to nothing to do with how we set our clocks but the length of the day at certain latitudes. No matter how you fiddle with clocks you can't escape the fact that sometimes their is less than 8-9 hours of sunlight a day and a 1 hour shift won't stop you from waking up when its dark and/or coming home in the dark.
I find it annoying as fuck to have the sun in my eyes blindingly low to the horizon for a few weeks coming to/from work only do have to deal with the same shit again in a month or two after the time change.
>>52999708
You nailed it, i'll be there at 17:00.
When people don't say 17:00 UTC but 17:00, then you should be able to safely assume that they mean local time.
To prevent confusion, people should only ommit the UTC when absolutely sure everyone thinks in the same timezone.
>>52993486
French here. We use both. We're cunts like that.
>>52991116
Yeah why just stop there why not just give businesses your bank account and let them decide when i should buy shit cause you know its good for business.
>>52999747
No they are not, waking up in the middle of the night because you think it's morning is.
Is this thread just one big bait?
>>52999783
You don't understand what we are talking about, please leave before you embarrass yourself even more
>>52999810
Yes, nice time-trips.
>>52999657
Crops, animals, and farmers, and shit do care about time, if you had them learn something, implement a device, or a service that is local time dependent, then it would be hard to do so without a local time zone because local time tells important shit like sunrise, sunset, midnight, etc. And it's shared for a fixed latitude around the whole longitude.
>>52991580
1 = 0.999...
Let's get rid of that retarded daylight saving time first.
>>52991116
>implaying the US would adapt even if the rest of the world did
>>52991362
depends, if i'm meeting a friend, we both understand if we mean 2 in the morning or 2 in the evening but when it's anything like a reservation or school or anything really that needs absolute clarity then 24hours is used
>>52993486
in dutch we say 6 but we write 18
>>52991153
A lot of people are half stupid, 35% of the population is between 85 and 100 IQ. A further 12ish percent are between 85 and 70.
Subtracting 12 from 11AM + 5PM on the fly is as difficult to them as knowing how the ECU maps in a cars fuel system are calculated. Some people, a lot actually as you'll see below, are incapable of training the neurons required to associate base 12 maths to time calculation.
>one in five people sit in the IQ range of most likely/able to commit violent/destructive/value damaging crime
>in a room of a hundred random ("developed nation") people twenty are close to what used to be called functionally retarded
In any case a world-wide adopted "universal" time is just plain stupid, we developed time zones according to the Suns position because biologically the Sun is the most relevant influence of people's activity.
>>52999307
>GMT+n
>Not UTC+n
cum on step it up
>>52999526
GMT=UTC all the time you clown.
>>52999512
>Implying it's impossible for people to change their schedules according to daylight hours while maintaining a consistent time standard
>>52999605
No, that's UTC.
>>53000174
>Subtracting 12 from 11AM + 5PM
?
>>53000239
You are obviously someone who would benefit from the universal time concept.
>>53000239
Yeah I went retarded, whatever.
If it were 11AM now and you wanted to know what time it would be in 6 hours you add the six and then take away 12.
fucking easy, 17-12 = 5
>>53000263
>>53000251
People calculate it?
I mean, it's just military time to am/pm time conversion, people just know it... or not? I haven't come across someone who doesn't know how to.
>>53000174
And those retards outbreed the intelligent people in the room like 10 to 1. Fuck this gay earth.
while on the topic, whaddabout metric time?
10 mhours / day,
100 mmin / mhour
100 mseconds / mmin
10 mmonths / yr
10 mweeks / month (some weeks are longer than others)
>>52992036
>antiquated bullshit
>women's suffrage
>>/pol/
>>52993483
This kek
>>52991832
>too lazy to update
Nigger maybe there's no reason to fucking udpate. Why the fuck would you update from Windows XP or even lower if it works for what you need?
That's why you're not in charge you double nigger. You would just waste time and money on something that doesn't really affect anything.
>>52993662
Shut up. You don't know. Your big words don't scare me science man. You don't know shieeet.
>>52999512
Because 3pm in California and 6pm in Boston are day and night differences senpai. Literally.
They should just use letters instead of numerical hours.
Like 0 is A, 23 is W.
>>53000590
This was tried after the French revolution. People ignored it and they reverted
where would it be based of?
>>53000103
Now that's just fucked
>>53001016
Male Feminist white knight cucked faggot detected
>>52999708
Underrated Post
>>52995498
Nobody gives a shit about China
