[HN Gopher] So You Want to Abolish Time Zones
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       So You Want to Abolish Time Zones
        
       Author : JoshTriplett
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2021-03-10 21:13 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | knorker wrote:
       | Who does?
        
         | tablespoon wrote:
         | > Who does?
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         | Every once in awhile you run into a developer who wants to,
         | because it would make developing apps that deal with time
         | easier. It's a laughably parochial perspective, but it happens.
        
         | shadowofneptune wrote:
         | At least two people do: one's an economics professor, the other
         | is a physics professor.
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         | https://www.wired.co.uk/article/universal-time-zones
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         | Reasoning is pretty shaky tbh. If the idea is to give everyone
         | a time that is suited for them, the most likely thing would be
         | for everyone to revert back to using the mean solar time for
         | their precise location, not to all converge on one time zone.
        
       | alkonaut wrote:
       | No, but _daylight saving time_.
        
       | ggm wrote:
       | Doesn't China still do this? I believe its one legal
       | jurisdictional timezone despite spanning three or four real ones.
       | And people do what's said here: they run their lives to follow
       | the diurnal clock with some minor variances to talk to the
       | centre. (Beijing)
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       | I run my servers on UTC. No summertime, and I'm fine. Midnight
       | log rolls are in a great time for me living my best life in
       | gmt+10. I am fix things, in core body clock hours.
        
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