Timezones, and Worse, Daylight Saving Time (opens in new tab)

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3 pointsTree19937y ago2 comments

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So, you'd like to have an universal time, coordinated? Excellent, use UTC.

(As for DST, I agree that it's actively harmful, eating at least man-years of effort per year.)

Obligatory responses:

https://qntm.org/abolish ("So You Want To Abolish Time Zones")

https://qntm.org/calendar ("You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform")

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So, you'd like to have an universal time, coordinated? Excellent, use UTC.

(As for DST, I agree that it's actively harmful, eating at least man-years of effort per year.)

Obligatory responses:

https://qntm.org/abolish ("So You Want To Abolish Time Zones")

https://qntm.org/calendar ("You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform")

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse