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by poincaredisk 591 days ago
>And how would Europeans react when the global majority vote to move the suddenly-meaningful Prime Meridian to much more populous and economically important regions than London, and it's now Europe that gets to experience that kind of day, for the benefit of Tokyo and Beijing?

I'm honestly fine with it. I already often go to sleep 5am my time and wake up 13:00 (my sleep schedule is not typical), so I'm not that far from your horror scenario. But anyway, what difference does it make it people wake up at 3:00, 14:00 or 22:00? This is just a random reference frame you got used to.
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growse 591 days ago
Quite a few billion people are not fine with it, and I'm not seeing any serious argument designed to convince them why they should be.

No-one cares if you set your watch to UTC regardless of your latlng. Meanwhile, the rest of us will just crack on with how we've always done it.

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poincaredisk 591 days ago
Yeah, to be honest I don't think this idea is realistic at all. Inertia is extremely strong, and we can't get rid of much easier things (like DST, that most of the world agrees is a bad idea). I also agree that nowadays the benefits would be minor.

So I don't seriously purpose we do it, but it's fun to speculate how it could be. I think in an alternate reality where the whole world has the same hour, people would shudder at the crazy idea that every country has a different time on their clocks.

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