Why isn’t this a popular thing?

  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Answer quickly, if noon is 0330 what time is dinner, what is a 9-5 job and what time do you expect to have breakfast. There are lots of adjustments you will need to make, whereas with the current system you know that as a general rule you can expect dinner at around 8, most people to work 9-5, and places to serve breakfast at 8 or 9, so you switch your clock when you arrive and you’re done.

    If you’re a local who never moved timezones z then yeah it makes no difference what the numbers are, you would get used to waking up at 9PM and switching date midway through the day, there might even be 2 different words for tomorrow, one for the next day one for the next date, but the moment you traveled to a different location all of your years of being used to general time where things happen go out the window, it’s much more of a hassle than adjusting your clock and assuming times will be mostly similar.

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Yep. I can tell you that dinner would be around 0930, but you’re right that the other calculations are tougher.

      I’m not saying this would be better. Either system has trade-offs. I’m saying that each of them would be equally weird from the other side.