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I feel that this is what we should be using instead of the current illogical time system.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Wow, this brought back memories and I feel old.

I don't know, way back in the internet 1.0 days.... my child brain hung out with some other kids of similar age on chat channels. Time zones fucking boggled my mind at the time, and I tried to sell some other people on this shit so we could always meet up at the same time to chat.

TL;DR - I "bought into" the marketting as a kid... I always did like watches, tried to convince some internet buddies to use the shit. Later in life, understood how timezones worked.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

timezones make sense to me, and this just looks like UTC+1 with extra steps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Decimal time is the interesting part.

I wish that all time and calendars were decimal. Or at very least we should have something like the Hobbit calendar where every month is the same amount of days and the same date is the same weekday each year.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What's the point?

We have UTC/GMT my dudes. Just count times by that and boom, no time zones. You can even remove a colon, meaning you just end up with 4 numbers, like 1700 for 17:00 UTC (5pm Greenwich time)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I tried to have a discussion about this on reddit about how everyone should just use utc and he called me a lunatic because his working day would start at 3am instead of 8am, completely misunderstanding that utc 3am would be a different time to his current 3am and he just could not get his little head around it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I've said this all my life and I can't wait for the day we all shift to a single tike zone. While we're on the topic, we also need to change a few more things - single global currency, zero customs duties, no passports, and the metric system with a single kind of 240v electrical socket/plug (my own preference being the UK plugs).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

UK plugs are great, though EU ones will do just fine and are seemingly most common throughout the world.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I agree, but EU ones don't have grounding usually

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

They have it optionally. But yes, making it mandatory would be amazing!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago

I don't want to live in a OCD designed mcWorld

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

No daylight savings time. Sold.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I pretty much just have to switch AM to PM and I'm pretty much there

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That system is far more illogical than the current time system what are you on?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It is a marketing ploy to sell watches, it was never intended to be logical.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Watches were not invented by the time the system was popular

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Swatch Internet Time (or .beat time) is a decimal time system introduced in 1998 by the Swatch corporation as part of their marketing campaign for their line of ".beat" watches.

I could be wrong, but I'm fairly certain watches existed in 1998.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh, i thought you meant time zones

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I could be wrong, but I'm fairly certain time zones existed in 1998.

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