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

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    9 months ago

    You should have been there for it’s christening.

    We’re getting rid of minutes/hours/seconds

    YAY!

    We’re getting rid of daylight savings time

    YAY!!!

    We’re getting rid of timezones

    Yu…wait how the HELL is that supposed to work?

    And we sat there, waiting for the other shoe to drop, crickets.

    So how do you tell someone when your day starts? How do you coordinate multi content projects? What’s the minimum time segment? Just under 90 seconds. So no more microwaving for 30 seconds, or do we start with fractional beats?

    It was just early internet clickbait.

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      9 months ago

      Actually it’s not that difficult, as you can see on the wiki page time is shown in

      @392.51

      So yeah there are fractions.

      Also I don’t really see the problem without timezones, so if it’s @451 maybe that is night for you and morning for me.

      It would actually make traveling easier, because you will immediately see what time it is for your family at home.

      Instead of the hours at a place being the same (like 19:20 is in the evening for everyone), now we keep the time the same but we have different experiences at certain beats.

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        9 months ago

        It would actually make traveling easier, because you will immediately see what time it is for your family at home.

        So what? Time doesn’t mean anything anymore. What time is dinner? What time do they get up? What time do they go to bed? When can you call?

        What time does someone in Moscow go do bed? How about LA?

        You’re no longer lumping them in to timezones. Someone on one side of the us is exactly 5 hours off the other side now. Places work in chunks. Every last place just opens and closes at different times.

        It would just be chaos.

        Right know, if i vaguely know what quarter of the US you live in, I can tell what time you get up, exactly when your banks open, when you’re eating dinner, when you should be done work. You’re not going to say that’s just trash right?

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          9 months ago

          Just to counter, you’d still know this. Forget beats and say there was a single time zone with the normal time system. So right now you know that Eastern time is -5 and people generally do shit 9am to 5pm, and if you live in London you’ll minus 5 from your time yo know the things you mentioned. In a single time zone system, you’ll just know those guys in that region of the US generally do shit from 4am to 1pm. It’s the same thing as remembering a time zone and minussing 5 each time. It is however helpful to coordinate stuff. Like a call at 10am is 10am for everyone (the amount of daylight would differ but you’ll still pick up the phone at 10am). Or a flight that takes off at noon and reaches at 7pm would be exactly the same time everywhere.

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            9 months ago

            I don’t know YOUR schedule. It’s a good thing that life doesn’t center around just you.