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Region: Thegye

Bassiliya wrote:Or, we can make it the discussion question here!

Discuss: Time zones and daylight savings! What are your guys' opinions about these topics?

I've talked about this on discord, but I'll say it again for the people here.

Timezones are the only good system of organising time globally but a lot of places implement them poorly (western europe, the pacific, china). Preferably these should be fixed to align better with proper geographic timezones.

Daylight savings is confusing and unneeded.

Timezone abolition is a very bad idea: it would simplify a small number of minor things that can be easily solved without abolishing timezones, while partially disconnecting time from the sun. It would make travelling more confusing and difficult, deprive people of a very important part of social organisation, and most importantly would make the modern day-hour system of time lose a lot of it's utility and purpose, among other things. Not to mention the fact that deciding on what that universal timezone would be (especially if UTC was ruled out) difficult and could easily anger a lot of people.

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