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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
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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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@tiser
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