No Timezones
I often wish we just dropped time zones, and agreed to use UTC for everything. Or TAI, whichever.
I also think AM / PM suck, and we should drop them in favor of simple negative / positive, relative to UTC.
| EDT | UTC |
|---|---|
| 12:00a | 05:00 |
| 6:00a | 11:00 |
| 9:00a | 14:00 |
| 12:00p | 17:00 |
| 3:00p | 20:00 |
| 6:00p | 23:00 |
| 9:00p | 26:00 |
| 12:00a | 29:00 |
Whereas, for example, the same day in South Korea would look like
| KST | UTC |
|---|---|
| 12:00a | -9:00 |
| 6:00a | -3:00 |
| 9:00a | 0:00 |
| 12:00p | 3:00 |
| 3:00p | 6:00 |
| 6:00p | 9:00 |
| 9:00p | 12:00 |
| 12:00a | 15:00 |
At least this way, the math is right in front of you. You can clearly see these things barely overlap, just by the numbers.
To see how these things overlap, I’ll merge them
| EDT | UTC | KST |
|---|---|---|
| -9:00 | 12:00a | |
| -3:00 | 6:00a | |
| 0:00 | 9:00a | |
| 3:00 | 12:00p | |
| 12:00a | 5:00 | |
| 6:00 | 3:00p | |
| 9:00 | 6:00p | |
| 6:00a | 11:00 | |
| 12:00 | 9:00p | |
| 9:00a | 14:00 | |
| 15:00 | 12:00a | |
| 12:00p | 17:00 | |
| 3:00p | 20:00 | |
| 6:00p | 23:00 | |
| 9:00p | 26:00 | |
| 12:00a | 29:00 |
Maybe I just don’t like time zones, but I think it’s better if it’s the same time for everybody. Haters gonna hate.
You run into some aliasing, but that’s hardly an issue so far. Everybody knows what Friday 11p-2a means.