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by jrflowers 605 days ago
I like this reasoning, why not further stop using “day”, “night”, and “local time” so as to not be exclusionary to people that are not physically and temporally proximate? If it is day for me how could it be night for anyone else?? Simply supply coordinates and Unix time stamps for beginning and end, as any attempt at human-readable communication can exclude or confuse someone!
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Don't you think that using a time format strongly tied to a religious calendar and a operating system with a distinct philosophy is a bit problematic?

GPS time is a bit heliocentric and imperialistic but certainly more free than UNIX time.