• CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Plus a bunch of people would have the day turn over into the next day in the middle of the work day, which would be pretty inconvenient.

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      1 year ago

      How so? Becky, I need you on that zoom call on Wednesday, 00:30 with our distributor Carlos in Mexico, the tax agent Amahle in South Africa, and our ship Captain who’s currently in Malaysia.

      No confusion. Everyone knows what time they need to turn on the PC.

      No conversions for PC times, no shipping time charts, none of it.

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          1 year ago

          Yes… just like it is now lol. You’re telling me you can instantly convert what time 6 p.m. is for Mexico, South Africa, And Malaysia is?

          Can you? Congrats, you’ve already done your ‘extra step’ calculation anyway lol.

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            With time zones, if it’s 10am where you are and you need to talk to someone somewhere else in the world, you look up their time zone and see what time it is there, and you know if it’s 3pm that they are probably still at work, and if it’s 1am there then they are sleeping, and so on.

            If you don’t have time zones and you just know it’s also 10am there, what do you look up to quickly know whether they are likely working, eating, sleeping in that location? Do you look up when sunset is in that city and then check its latitude and the time of year so you can estimate where they probably are in their day?

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              You really don’t lol. Again, you’re overthinking it. Everyone has to do that already. I say can we meet at 18:00? No, how about 19:00? Yeah that’s late for me but sure we can make it work.

              That’s it. That’s already how it goes lol.

              The change isn’t really meant for those parts anyway. It’s for the people who actually keep the world running logistically lol. That’s just the easiest to imagine for most.