• BlanketsWithSmallpox
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    How so? Becky, I need you on that zoom call on Wednesday, 00:30 with our distributor Carlos in Mexico, the tax agent Amahle in South Africa, and our ship Captain who’s currently in Malaysia.

    No confusion. Everyone knows what time they need to turn on the PC.

    No conversions for PC times, no shipping time charts, none of it.

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      You don’t see an inconvenience living in a place where a restaurant’s hours are

      Wed 9pm - Thu 7am

      Thu 9pm - Fri 6am

      Fri 9pm - Sat 9am

      And it seems perfectly fine to have it be ambiguous when you say something is tomorrow if you mean after lunch or after you sleep?

      You can’t think of any clerical, banking, or technical inconveniences with having things carry over into the next day in the middle of the day?

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        No that makes very easy sense to me lmfao. Maybe you’re just overthinking it?

        First off quit using pm and am. It’s a 24:00 hour system. Why are you denoting different days when it starts in one day?

        Bank Hours:

        Wednesday 2200-0700

        Thursday 2200-0700

        Friday 2200-0500

        Sat sun Closed

        Bam, now everyone in the world knows when they’re open. Now I know if I’m road tripping I can stop at the bank without having to think about whether I crossed a time zone.

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          You are definitely underthinking it.

          Imagine in another locale store hours:

          Mon 23:00 - 10:00 (Tue)

          Wed 0:00 - 10:00 (this is the very next day in real time, but since it opens one hour later it’s now entirely in the next day)

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            Doesn’t seem like it judging by the non-reactionary responses lol.

            Hell, we’re going to actually need this system of time once we start spacefaring so we have a solar standard.

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              12 years ago

              Seems like you’re just hand-waving the arguments against it, instead of considering what life would be like. There would be virtually no benefit but definite annoyances.

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                12 years ago

                Seems like you’re just hand-waving the arguments against it, instead of considering what life would be like. There would be virtually no benefit but definite annoyances.

                Ok now I know you’re just fucking with me lmfao.

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        Yes… just like it is now lol. You’re telling me you can instantly convert what time 6 p.m. is for Mexico, South Africa, And Malaysia is?

        Can you? Congrats, you’ve already done your ‘extra step’ calculation anyway lol.

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          With time zones, if it’s 10am where you are and you need to talk to someone somewhere else in the world, you look up their time zone and see what time it is there, and you know if it’s 3pm that they are probably still at work, and if it’s 1am there then they are sleeping, and so on.

          If you don’t have time zones and you just know it’s also 10am there, what do you look up to quickly know whether they are likely working, eating, sleeping in that location? Do you look up when sunset is in that city and then check its latitude and the time of year so you can estimate where they probably are in their day?