Post by @hdv@front-end.social

can we please standardise summertime/wintertime globally… asking for a friend that has some equally important meetings anchored to US time and some to UTC today

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Matthias Ott

@matthiasott@mastodon.social 2 hr. ago

@hdv Maybe we could just standardise time altogether, so it’s the same time everywhere in the world, all the time. That would solve jet lag, too! 🤓

Eric A. Meyer

@Meyerweb@mastodon.social 48 min. ago

@matthiasott @hdv This happened in a sci-fi book I read (and didn’t very much like, but that’s another thread) a long time ago. The Earth had been fully enclosed with a very high roof, and everywhere was set to be on a simultaneous light/dark cycle. Elegant! And yet.

Hidde

@hdv@front-end.social 40 min. ago

@Meyerweb @matthiasott sounds perfect1

Matthias Ott

@matthiasott@mastodon.social 42 min. ago

@Meyerweb @hdv Haha … I bet @zeldman would appreciate that level of commitment to standardisation! 😄

Martin Grubinger

@grooovinger@mastodon.social 1 hr. ago

@matthiasott @hdv Yes! And... No 😀
https://qntm.org/abolish

So You Want To Abolish Time Zones

Laudable! Let's take a look at some of the changes that arise from this, through a simple case study: making an international phone call to a relative. Before abolishing time zones I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there? Google tells me it is currently...

ppk 🇪🇺

@ppk@front-end.social 1 hr. ago

@matthiasott @hdv Long ago Swatch tried to do that, dividing the day into 1000 'beats'. Back then (1998?) I even helped a Swatch guy write a JavaScript for converting regular times to beats.

Seems it still exists. https://www.swatch.com/en-en/internet-time.html

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What is a Swatch .beat? We have divided up the day into 1000 ".beats". So, one Swatch ".Beat" is equivalent to 1 Minute 26.4 Seconds.

Hidde

@hdv@front-end.social 1 hr. ago

@matthiasott great idea let's goooooo