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trønderen26-Mar-23 6:13
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trønderen26-Mar-23 7:12
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trønderen26-Mar-23 8:36
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My proposal is that we all stay in UTC. All of us, all over the world. That would simplify international contacts (and even national ones, in large countries spanning several time zones). OK, so I would set my alarm clock at 05:00 rather than 06:00. People in other parts of the world will get out of bed at 02:00 or 17:00, so what? There is no rational reason for everyone calling it 06:00 when they wake up, considering that it has 24+ different interpretations across the world.

If you feel that you have to call you wake-up time the same as the wake-up time of someone in a different part of the world, it must be because you have some communication with that fellow. In that case, a lot more problems are solved by having one unambiguous, common time reference.

In international dialogs, you have to relate to a lot more than the time zone anyway. I live in UTC+1, but if I want a net meeting with some English (i.e. UTC+0) guy, I should consider him two hours behind us: While standard working hours around here are from 08:00 to 16:00 (UTC+1), the Englishman cannot be expected to be available before 10:00 (UTC+1); standard British working hours are 09:00 to 17:00 (UTC+0).

If we could agree on UTC all over the world, we should in the same reform abandon this a.m./p.m. mess and completely switch to 24 hour format.

I have no realistic hope about this becoming a reality (even though China went from 5 to 1 time zone without much problems). People are so ingrained with getting up at 06:00 that they will refuse to change it to, say, 02:00 even if the sun is just as high on the sky as before. 02:00 is not long after midnight, and no one can persuade me to get out of bed at that time, no matter what the sun says!
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trønderen26-Mar-23 18:26
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GeneralI have retired my MS keyboard, after a short life. Pin
OriginalGriff26-Mar-23 4:43
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OriginalGriff26-Mar-23 5:39
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OriginalGriff26-Mar-23 5:59
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dandy7227-Mar-23 6:29
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OriginalGriff27-Mar-23 6:47
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dandy7228-Mar-23 2:30
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OriginalGriff28-Mar-23 2:56
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dandy7228-Mar-23 7:13
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