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by gt_ 3032 days ago
This is the exact problem it would solve, once "everyone" had actually switched.
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Johnny555 3032 days ago
How does it solve anything?

If everyone was on UTC and I want to schedule a meeting with my coworker across the country, I still need the application to tell me what time standard business hours are wherever he is located

So the developer still has to do the UTC->Localtime lookup.

Plus, when I travel, I have to keep a chart of local "human-time", so I know that when it's 03:00, it's time for lunch.

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zanny 3032 days ago
You always have to ask the question "what times are good for you?" because everyone lives on a different schedule.

With global UTC it just means the times each of you give don't need to go through a complicated conversion process to interpret.

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