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by brightlancer 984 days ago
> The alternative is that we have a DNS-style lookup of every city on earth which contains what each city has chosen for their daylight hours.

We already have to do that: every business and government office (including schools) has their own hours (and holidays); even in the same city, people are not waking (or going to sleep) at a uniform time.

Time zones are a 19th century solution to a 19th century problem.