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by ginko 18 days ago
I almost think that one was a bit too early. Having a "universal" way to share time that's not timezone ambiguous would be pretty handy these days.
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I used to think the same, as I was fascinated with the Swatch Beat time concept. Until I read this: https://qntm.org/abolish - the brilliant argument against universal time.
Why not use UTC?
Because then you have to add that you mean UTC since the time format looks like local time. With beats it's obvious from the formatting that it's internet time.
Just add a Z at the end. For example 19:18Z. Its standard in military time and ISO 8601.