• BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.world
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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

      You don’t see an inconvenience living in a place where a restaurant’s hours are

      Wed 9pm - Thu 7am

      Thu 9pm - Fri 6am

      Fri 9pm - Sat 9am

      And it seems perfectly fine to have it be ambiguous when you say something is tomorrow if you mean after lunch or after you sleep?

      You can’t think of any clerical, banking, or technical inconveniences with having things carry over into the next day in the middle of the day?

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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 locution? 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?