When are timezones relevant? When dealing with people far away, or when traveling for longer distances.
In the first case it is far more easier to remember that John is +3 ours from you and Julia is -2 hours, than to have to remember when John gets up and when Julia gets up, and when they go to sleep and so on. Remembering “about my shedule but +/-x” is far easier.
In terms of flights it might seem easier at first, however once you land and realize that 13:40 means the middle of the night and everything being closed, you will quickly wish differently. Imagine for every further away place you visit you have to learn how the UTC translates to local opening hours, instead of just rolling with local time.
Nah it’s way easier to have 1. You don’t have to constantly adjust. Countries that can get away with it have 1, notably China.
France, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain should be in a different time zone, but they went to German time (because of Nazis) for a fairly uniform continent.
Maybe we could refer to places by when solar noon is for them in UTC.
So that instead of knowing a simple +/- hours you have to first calculated it off of 12?
I think it doesn’t make communication across timezones easier. Instead of everyone rolling with a comparable schedule and just adjusting for the time difference, you will have to remember many more local schedules as you lack an intuitive understanding.
Also solar noon is even worse of a metric, because it would completely fracture timezones. Timezones already are a compromise, so that people in a more connected zone can work with each other more easier, effectively demanding the people on the east of that time zone to stay at work later and in the west of that time zone to rise up earlier relative to the sun.
I think it would be equally easy to coordinate across timezones. Nobody is likely to ask about “solar noon,” they’re just going to ask about the time of the things they’re trying to coordinate.
“Let’s meet for lunch when you get in town!”
“Great! When do you guys have lunch?”
“Around 16:00.”
“Oh, ok. That’s around dinner time for me.”
Easy-peasy. The biggest reason it seems weird to us is that we are used to the current way. There’s no reason our brains couldn’t get used to (for instance) waking up at 01:00 and going to bed at 17:00 if that was the normal we had all grown up with.
Though, that said, there was someone on Lemmy a few months ago who absolutely lost their mind at the idea and verbally abused me about the very concept, so you know… your mileage may vary.
This makes things way more complicated.
When are timezones relevant? When dealing with people far away, or when traveling for longer distances.
In the first case it is far more easier to remember that John is +3 ours from you and Julia is -2 hours, than to have to remember when John gets up and when Julia gets up, and when they go to sleep and so on. Remembering “about my shedule but +/-x” is far easier.
In terms of flights it might seem easier at first, however once you land and realize that 13:40 means the middle of the night and everything being closed, you will quickly wish differently. Imagine for every further away place you visit you have to learn how the UTC translates to local opening hours, instead of just rolling with local time.
Nah it’s way easier to have 1. You don’t have to constantly adjust. Countries that can get away with it have 1, notably China.
France, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain should be in a different time zone, but they went to German time (because of Nazis) for a fairly uniform continent.
I mean it it makes travelling a teeny bit more complex to remember but for communication and coordination across time zones… It’s way better that way.
Maybe we could refer to places by when solar noon is for them in UTC.
So that instead of knowing a simple +/- hours you have to first calculated it off of 12?
I think it doesn’t make communication across timezones easier. Instead of everyone rolling with a comparable schedule and just adjusting for the time difference, you will have to remember many more local schedules as you lack an intuitive understanding.
Also solar noon is even worse of a metric, because it would completely fracture timezones. Timezones already are a compromise, so that people in a more connected zone can work with each other more easier, effectively demanding the people on the east of that time zone to stay at work later and in the west of that time zone to rise up earlier relative to the sun.
I think it would be equally easy to coordinate across timezones. Nobody is likely to ask about “solar noon,” they’re just going to ask about the time of the things they’re trying to coordinate.
Easy-peasy. The biggest reason it seems weird to us is that we are used to the current way. There’s no reason our brains couldn’t get used to (for instance) waking up at 01:00 and going to bed at 17:00 if that was the normal we had all grown up with.
Though, that said, there was someone on Lemmy a few months ago who absolutely lost their mind at the idea and verbally abused me about the very concept, so you know… your mileage may vary.
I didn’t mean solar noon like, exactly. But close-ish. Like timezones are now.