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It's time to mentally prepare yourselves for this (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] rektdeckard@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What you're describing is LITERALLY the system we have. UTC is a global, coordinated time that tracks solar time to a precision of less than a second. As far as my computer is concerned, my time is UTC (technically GMT, but they both refer to the same time) minus 6 hours. We all could choose to say, "hey, wanna meet for dinner at 3AM?" and have that be a normal thing to say in my area, and an odd thing to say odd in Europe... but nobody wants that.

[โ€“] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

yeah, my problem is that nobody use UTC. And we have problems like gas pumps in finland breaking because they programmed timezones incorrectly.