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[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We've gone too far. Everyone just switch to UTC please. Yes, it means some will go to bed at 2pm and get up at 10pm, so what.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I'm just saying, but we did.

Pretty much every electronic thing you own that resembles a computer (phones, tablets, laptops, desktops, even your damned TV) uses UTC. Every. Single. One. Translates that time to "local" whenever it needs to.

So when your TV goes from 9:32 to 9:33, is just showing the converted time from UTC each time.

Almost every device on the planet is keeping time in UTC.

Just because you don't see UTC time on your device, doesn't mean that's not what's happening. I had an issue where I needed to get into my computer's bios for something, as soon as the BIOS loaded and showed the time, it was "wrong" because it was in UTC. I'm sure plenty of newer BIOS dialogs are configured to account for timezones now, so yeah. I might be unique in this. It's still there.

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

go to bed at 2pm and get up at 10pm

While we are making reasonable demands, stop using 12 hour time. Sincerely, everyone else.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

The proposed time zone is to drift about 1 second every 50 years. I also suspect it wouldn't really be a time zone in the same sense as the time zones we know - it would just be a standardised calibration reference. Dates and times expressed in "moon time" would probably just be some leap second off of a known Earth time zone, and because it's mere seconds over centuries, I think the only use of this time zone is to calculate ultra-precise time diffs between two earth datetimes when the observer is on the moon. At least, that's how I interpret the articles I can find about it.

[–] mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago

No different than any other project the PM/PO team cooks up. Tons of work for no user base.