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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If we’re really committed to not going by solar time, everything should be UTC.

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    • Spooge@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m an American, and I refuse to switch to metric time.

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      • mech@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        OK then keep using your American Football innings per school shooting.

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      • Bahnd@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        [threatens with ISO-8601]

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      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Why not? What’s wrong with having a day composed of 1000 chroners, or 1 kilochroner which can be divided into either 10 centichroners or 100 decachroners?

        We can even divide each chroner into 1000 millichroners, or for scientific purposes, a million microchroners, a billion nanochroners, or a trillion picochroners.

        So much more sense than 60 seconds times 60 minutes times 24 hours. What even is a second, anyway? When was it defined as a constant, by whom, and against what reference? It’s completely arbitrary, I tell you!

        And then when you extend that to 7 days, times 4 to 4.43 weeks, times 12 months before you finally get into decimals (decades, centuries, millenia, etc.), it’s insanity!

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      • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Actual metric time was a fiasco I’ve always been fascinated by

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      • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah, how else would you say “a quarter past eight”, like “15 centimeters past eight”? It makes no sense!

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      • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        UTC isn’t metric time. LOL

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    • Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’ve made this argument so many times. It just makes things so much easier when dealing internationally

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    • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      but I live in EST land so therefore it is the best option

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    • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If we’re not going by solar time we should go with TAI. Fuck leap seconds.

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  • Sneezydinosaur@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s crazy to me how people keep making memes where the group with Florida isn’t a part of the mental illness. Really speaks to the severity of their mental illness.

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    • PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Florida is really more like a global epicenter of mental illness, unique and distinct, lol. Magnetically attracting the unwell of various stripes, concentrating and uhhh…cultivating that funk, which of course can’t help but radiate outwards, given the frightening densities of “wtf?”

      Apparently even tryna think about how to classify the place causes weird distortion effects.

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      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah, Florida is basically a retirement home, with boomers aging their population is increasing a lot right now. Its quintessential boomerness.

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  • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What’s ‘Mountain’? I’ve seen TV shows advertised as Eastern, then their voice gets quiet and they mention Central. Sometimes they do the same for Pacific. Never heard of ‘Mountain.’ Sounds fake.

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    • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What’s ‘Mountain’?

      It a really big hill that is hard to climb.

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      • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Surely you can’t be serious?

        - Kate Bush and Sisyphus, simultaneously

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    • Spooge@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “It’s Mountain Time” is what your mom says when she calls me.

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Never heard of ‘Mountain.’ Sounds fake.

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    • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      there’s only like 8 people there, so it doesn’t really matter.

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      • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        People on mountain time have mountains to entertain them, so they dont watch tv

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      • CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m one of them. At least 3 of us are on Lemmy!

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They claim it includes New Mexico, but I don’t see why we’d have a new Mexico when the old one is still perfectly good. Sounds fake to me

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      • socsa@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Even old New Mexico was once New Amsterdam.

        • Confucius, probably
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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The area that New Mexico occupies was named Nuevo Mexico before Mexico existed and was called Mexico

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    • Starik@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If you live in Eastern, you’ve heard Central on tv or the radio because it neighbors you and some people in Central might be getting the same broadcast. You’ve heard Pacific because a lot of media is out of LA. There’s nothing important in the Mountain time zone, and it’s far away from you, so you don’t hear about it often.

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    • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s 245pm in California right now.

      If you go to parts of Arizona they might tell you it’s 345pm. Ask in Phoenix and they’ll say 245pm.

      Ask in Phoenix in the winter and they remember to say hour different from Pacific time.

      They can’t get the story straight.

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  • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I guess we don’t have the concept of time in Canada (or Mexico) based on this map. Thats also ignoring all of the other world timezones

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    • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Confirmed. I’m in Canada and I’m always late.

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  • Imperious_melange@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The ISS uses UCT but they have a sunrise and sunset every 45 minutes so it’s not really connected to the sun like us terrestrials.

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  • smeg@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s a little bizarre that the Netherlands, or especially Spain, are in the time zone centered on basically Berlin. Damn WW2. The sun doesn’t set until nearly 23:00 this time of year, and during winter isn’t up until nearly 08:00.

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    • Rothe@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sounds pretty normal from a Northern European viewpoint. Is it supposed to be different?

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  • Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Must be wild living somewhere in the middle of a state right at a time zone border

    Specially that eastern Oregon / western Idaho pocket where you gain an hour going far enough north, south, or west lol

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    • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I lived within 20 min of the EST and CST split for a couple years. It is wild. Doing anything informal like meeting with friends was fine because we’d just say “come by in 2 hours.” Other times it was awful, leaving home at 7:45pm to go to the grocery store across town and arriving 90 minutes later after they closed sucked lol

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    • impairedimperator@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Nah. Not really. Time zones don’t follow state boundaries because they generally follow natural population boundaries.

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    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Even within a time zone things can be odd because of how big they are. Like sunset in the summer in Maine is like 8 but in Michigan it’s 9.

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  • Leviathan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Real shit. No cap. No lies told.

    I’m very old.

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  • mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Looking at you, China.

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  • mimavox@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Or, you can do like China and just dictate that everything is one timezone, regardless of longitude.

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    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It would be really weird going to work at 5am instead of 8am, despite the sun being out

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  • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They should never have done away with Specific Time.

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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Welp, it’s 1 PM in Hawaii, time to go settle in for the night.

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