[tshaddox]

My bank opens at 9am. My pharmacy opens at 8am. The corner cafe opens at 7:30 but is completely closed on Wednesdays. This "complexity," if you want to call it that, requires very little cognitive load, and certainly doesn't require any standardized features to be added to every operating system and programming language standard library.

[taeric]

The complexity I was referencing was having all businesses change by exactly the same amount on a given day. Which happens relatively flawlessly twice a year in much of the world. Just having them be different times for different companies is a completely separate thing.

[mardifoufs]

Yes, but that's still all the same ballpark. It's useful to know that 9am is in the morning for almost everyone. Yes, there are exceptions but they are still just that - exceptions. I'm not sure how useful it would be to add even more chaos.

And again, it's a weird inversion in the role of a machine. Machines should make life easier for us, not the opposite.

[troupo]

With the "system" proposed in the comment I replied to, at which time will those businesses open in New York? London? Delhi? Tokyo? And why at those times?

What about, say, Amsterdam and Stockholm?