On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 02:06:50PM -0700, Brandon Svec via NANOG wrote:
"..rational time worldwide"? Like all of China in one timezone and Mumbai :30 off center? and Arizona? and that one county in Idaho?
The word "rational" does not belong in a sentence discussing timezones or even general time issues. We're taught from a young age that you wake up at, well for the sake of argument, let's agree on 7AM. You learn that businesses are "9AM to 5PM", etc. These are basically all arbitrary choices, based off hysterical raisins that have to do with the position of the sun at noon, in an era where there weren't better ways to synchronize clocks. We COULD all work in UTC and un-learn the weird system of hour offsets and timezones. This would be convenient for people at a distance, since it would be simply a matter of stating availability hours, rather than giving someone hours AND a timezone and making them do the math. If I say that I'm available for an hour at 22:00 UTC, that works out anywhere on the globe. But do you know what timezone "CDT" is? When's "17:00 CDT"? ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"-Asimov