• KillingTimeItself
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    17 months ago

    you say you already use this at work, but then say it’s an entirely new concept. I don’t think you’ve quite comprehended this properly.

    We are literally already doing it, there is no reason not to switch to it.

    • @puppy
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      17 months ago

      We are using GMT + timezones. You are the one who opposed timezones and said you have a different approach. But yours is exactly like timezones. My question is that why should anyone switch to something “like” timezones when there are actual timezones?

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        07 months ago

        because the thing that is “like” timezones is fucking better, why else would you switch?

        • @puppy
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          17 months ago

          How is it better?

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              7 months ago

              It’s not better because your offset time is much granuler and hard to calculate in your mind than timezones. And it doesn’t offer anything new over timezones. Since you suggested it, you must see a benefit. What is it?

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                17 months ago

                what the fuck do you think timezones currently do?

                Are they just arbitrarily stuck to “maybe sometime close to local solar time”

                It could literally be equally as granular as existing timezones. You could just remap timezones to the offsets directly, hell even less granular because who cares. Just delete the half hour offsets.

                it’s not adding anything new, that’s not the point, in fact it’s impossible to add something “new” to the concept of time, we’ve already defined it. It’s an improved variant of timezones, where coordination is immediately more accessible, and less involved. It’s explicitly less arbitrarily defined than the current timezones that we have no, because most of the time, you just wouldn’t use them.