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Worst is UTC vs GMT (i.ibb.co)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 147 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (31 children)

The creator of DST gets the first slap. Then the timezones asshole.

I'm planning to do a presentation at work on how to deal with dates/times/timezones/conversion/etc in the next few weeks some time. I figure it would be a good topic to cover. I'm going to start my talk by saying "first, imagine there is no such thing as timezones or DST." And then build on that.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Imagine, if we were just all on the same time. It'd just make things, a little easier.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

All in the same time? But... Then the sun might go down at noon. That doesn't make sense...

Wait... Noon? Noooon...

The word noon comes from a Latin root, nona hora, or "ninth hour." In medieval times, noon fell at three PM, nine hours after a monk's traditional rising hour of six o'clock in the morning. Over time, as noon came to be synonymous in English with midday, its timing changed to twelve PM.

Oh now that's worse

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We must establish a new order of monks, who all get up at 6am UTC. We can call them in sync