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by dpark 3027 days ago
> It would be complicated to answer questions such as "what time does school starts in your county"?

That question is difficult to answer now. I live in Seattle and our schools aren’t consistent even within the city. The variance in start time among public schools is >1 hour.

I don’t actually want UTC. But I’d take it over the current crap.

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Well yes, I mean every timing relative to the day/night cycle will be difficult. "What time do your kids go to bed?" , "what time are the main news?", etc. Saying 13:00 will not help me.

OTOH everything which is international will be easier.

This is a trade-off.

Now - I am also against DST, but would realistically keep immutable timezones.

I feel compelled to post https://qntm.org/abolish .

EDIT: Ah, of course someone already posted it in this thread.

I feel compelled to point out that I specifically said I do not want UTC. :) I simply hate the daylight savings time switch so much that I’d choose standardization on UTC over it. I’d much, much prefer constant standard or daylight time (with time zones) over UTC though.