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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Without time zones it would be worse. Every little town would have their own time, calculated from their position

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

At least then everyone would be thinking about it and using UTC, not writing their programs to rely on the timezone always being the same

It's too easy a problem to ignore/overlook right now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I agree, UTC for global is fine, might as well just do localized time as

Sun-up, 1st hour of the day, ,2nd, 3rd... Sunset for locale

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

For the afternoon We could count the hours until sunset