Time zones

[RealBitcoin]

I cannot comprehend, why are people so moronic idiots that we have 500 different time zones for 1 fucking planet. Sometimes 1 timezone/country is not even enough, some countries have like 10 different timezones, but the countries north or south to it, which would fall in the exact timezones by latitude, have also different timezones.

Sometimes the timezone is 1 hour +/- sometimes it's 15 min +/- sometimes it's 5 min difference. These scientists are sure quack nutjobs that came up with this divided bullshit timezone quackery.

First of all this DST (daylight saving time) had some reason in the 1800's when we didn't have electricity and mass communication, 1 train leaving 1 station to arrive before sunset at another station had to switch back its clock if he passed another timezone.Ok that was geographic/solar positioning with compasses and old stuff like that.

But now we live in internet age , with GPS, mobile phones, and easy locationing systems.

Fuck overcomplicated bullshit, these nutjobs surely like to overcomplicate things, just look at how many shit like this exists to make our lives more complicated uneccesarly!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

And then we always have to convert timezones if we speak with a distant friend in another country... What a disease is that....

Why the fuck can't all of us just use UTC +0 time ,without DST, 1 universal time for all earth's citizens?
I for one just set my windows clock to UTC time zone, fuck the rest of these moronic time zones!

Another oppressive instrument to divide humanity!

[Finchy]

Why the fuck can't all of us just use UTC +0 time ,without DST, 1 universal time for all earth's citizens?
I for one just set my windows clock to UTC time zone, fuck the rest of these moronic time zones!

Because 8pm my time might be 6AM your time. What would be the point in that? Should Day also be called night in countries at the opposite side of the world? No. What you're suggesting doesn't make much sense and the way it is set out it is logical, though people can use UTC time if they wish.

[ridery99]

Is this another religion hate topic by atheists?

[Buffer Overflow]

Another oppressive instrument to divide humanity!

What are your referring to here, timezones or Windows OS?

[Brooker]

Is this another religion hate topic by atheists?

lolwut? What does this have to do with religion or atheism? Seems like a silly threads, though.

[RealBitcoin]

Why the fuck can't all of us just use UTC +0 time ,without DST, 1 universal time for all earth's citizens?
I for one just set my windows clock to UTC time zone, fuck the rest of these moronic time zones!

Because 8pm my time might be 6AM your time. What would be the point in that? Should Day also be called night in countries at the opposite side of the world? No. What you're suggesting doesn't make much sense and the way it is set out it is logical, though people can use UTC time if they wish.

Day is day, and night is night.

Why cant 15 PM mean midnight? I dont understand whats the big fuss about it, it would alteast unite humanity.

It's very annoying to always switch/convert/set back my timezone wherever i speak with somebody from another timezone, i always have to guess the time they live in.

It's so stupid, we can send instant messages to everybody, yet these morons who invented the time zone still think that it's wise to count leap-seconds and complicate our lives with it.

We got atomic clocks in London, Greenwitch is already the central latitude line from where UTC is calculated. Can't we just use the atomic clocks set to UTC to measure world time.

And fuck the astronomers who think accounting leap-microseconds has anything wise it in.


If i think about it, fuck the 365.242 day long year aswell, make it just 100 day years = 1000 weeks = 10000=days =10000 hours and so on.

Decimal time would be much more wise, its just moronic to count it in 60, and then adjust for fucking leap-microseconds.

Am I the only person on this planet that is disturbed by this bullshit?

[Borisz]

You know you can develop a preferred time measurement for yourself, right? Whatever you like. Let your friends know and use it to your liking.

You can simply call your time the "prime time" and say that everywhere else this is the correct time. Nevertheless, this won't change the Sun-Earth geometry and hence it also won't solve your problem as you will have now even less idea on whether it is day or night or early morning 10'000 km east and west from you.

[protokol]

Your system of decimal time without time-zones would be a massive headache. The whole reason time-zones exist is so everywhere on Earth, the same times correspond with the movement of the earth and sun.

If we went with your system, everything would go out of sync - seasons, and the amount of daylight would fluctuate to the extent of totally fucking up everyone's body clock. Also everyone would have to learn their new time, and would have to learn the time of every other place they visited. You would find places would make their own arbitrary times for going to work etc.

It would be a big mess, you need to think of a better system if you want to change anything 

[Finchy]

Why the fuck can't all of us just use UTC +0 time ,without DST, 1 universal time for all earth's citizens?
I for one just set my windows clock to UTC time zone, fuck the rest of these moronic time zones!

Because 8pm my time might be 6AM your time. What would be the point in that? Should Day also be called night in countries at the opposite side of the world? No. What you're suggesting doesn't make much sense and the way it is set out it is logical, though people can use UTC time if they wish.

Day is day, and night is night.

Why cant 15 PM mean midnight? I dont understand whats the big fuss about it, it would alteast unite humanity.

No it wouldn't. You're either trolling or just being stupid. We need a the current time system for comparison. Your suggestion just makes everything more confusing. If we say 12am everyone knows around the world what time that is and what to expect, but if 12am means 6PM in your country then there's no comparison there and nobody will know what the hell any time means around the world. We have different times because this planet is huge and doesn't all get the same sunlight hours and therefore time for example Night-time is from sunset to sunrise and we have the hours to reflect that.

[TheButterZone]

Sunrise, sunset, and local noon (when the sun is ACTUALLY highest in the sky relative to you) are constantly changing due to forces beyond our control. Analog clocks should all be set to UTC and digital/atomic ones (adjusting for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second ) should be displaying 4 lines, in order: UTC, next sunrise, next sunset, and next local noon. If everyone used UTC, nobody would have a problem setting their schedules and alarms to whatever time is required for work & play in their specific location and for global meetings.

[Sourgummies]

Like the idea of deciding which half the planet renames night time to day time.

[Gleb Gamow]

In re. DST, that was done so that there would be more sunlight during the summer for growing season and vacations. In the winter, the days were cut short because of no crops growing in the snow and people don't take holidays then. Christmas and New Years were already in place prior to implementing DST.

South of the equator it's reversed, albeit for the North and South, we have summer because Earth is closer to the sun. Likewise, in the winter the Earth is further from the sun.

The only reason we went to the moon was to adjust its orbit so that it would shine brighter in the winter time.

Tomorrow, I will learn you all about DNA and that being why a tree's roots mimic exactly what we see above ground.

[TheButterZone]

Like the idea of deciding which half the planet renames night time to day time.

Those are always relative to your position, clocks irrelevant. Has the sun set and not risen where you are? Night time. Sun risen but not set? Day time.

[RealBitcoin]

You know you can develop a preferred time measurement for yourself, right? Whatever you like. Let your friends know and use it to your liking.

You can simply call your time the "prime time" and say that everywhere else this is the correct time. Nevertheless, this won't change the Sun-Earth geometry and hence it also won't solve your problem as you will have now even less idea on whether it is day or night or early morning 10'000 km east and west from you.

But who cares about the sun/earth geometry, we only need a precise time measuring mechanism which we have: Atomic clocks set to measure UTC time.

If anyone just use that time, we would have all clocks synchronized in the world, and it would be easier to communicate.


Sure financial services already use UTC time (stock markets, exchanges ,etc), but there are always ones that don't, when shit gets confusing. I saw a lot of bitcoin exchanges that don't, and don't even show their timezone in which they are in, how the fuck am i going to guess for each one of them, and then always convert it to UTC.

It's just annoying, plus work, that is completely unnecessary, worthless, and just makes our lives more complicated.

I`m using UTC time for 90% of the things I do, and I haven't got my biological clock messed up, but my head gets messed up when i need to convert it to my local time, it would been easier if my local time = UTC time.

[jjacob]

We have had GMT for ages.
One time which everybody could use. When coordinating a broadcast across different continents, the time specified is usually GMT.