Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
This is the rarely-expressed exact opposite of DST abolition: literally do micro-DST every single day to keep local time adjusted to sunrise (though I would just do sunrise = 0:00). I actually... kinda respect it? Some precedent in ancient chinese timekeeping:
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Greg Lang
@designheretic
What if we went radically the other direction and simply got used to the sun being at different positions everywhere on earth at different times? It’s not like a majority still winds their watch and syncs it up with the village clock tower while walking to lunch from work anymore We could just make UTC global
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
This works for me too! First step is making UTC the unambiguous standard for scheduling online events and calls. No more of this "let's have a call at 17:30 PST / 04:30 your time" nonsense. Everyone only needs to remember one fact - how many hours ahead/behind of UTC they are - and it all works. Then go from there.
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Greg Lang
@designheretic
You are one of three other people I’ve ever put this to who didn’t react with visceral horror at the idea of decoupling the sun from the clock I suspect it would make the world feel more coherent, especially when traversing multiple meridians Apropos to that, have you read Rovelli’s Order of Time by any chance?
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HamDogJones
@hamdogjones
Just curious - how would you keep inter-time change commerce and planning at all effective? The time slide for the hundreds of zones would be drastic throughout the year, & people would still operate on scheduling on the hour/15 unit in their own zone, making all zones a clusterfuck when trying to coordinate anything.
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