Anonymous at Sun, 16 Mar 2025 23:37:35 UTC No. 16621224

>>16621211
Each country chooses their timezones

Anonymous at Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:18:31 UTC No. 16621252

>>16621211
Everyone picks which ever they want. Some of them choose based on other things than just the absolute position of the sun. Most of Europe comes in the same zone even though some of them would be better off in others just to have easier cooperation. Same with west Africa or South America. China likes to keep in Beijing time for unity and though it looks silly and is a bit silly too it's less of a problem than it may seem since most of them live on the coast. Some of them may go based on administrative zones or internal divisions etc like Russia, Australia, USA and Canada. It's the same reason why the date line is all fucked up, the islands want to stay on the same date as USA and Australia in particular and choose based on that.

Basically see any time cops around? No? then you can be anything. Even half past 3 like Iran

Anonymous at Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:45:11 UTC No. 16621270

>>16621252
>Everyone picks which ever they want.
8 billion personal timezones is the world I want. We have the technology.
Why not do it?

Anonymous at Mon, 17 Mar 2025 01:35:30 UTC No. 16621296

>>16621224
>>16621252
Could a country technically pick to be +5 when they are surrounded by -5 nations?

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:32:36 UTC No. 16622508

>>16621296
If that's how they want to set their domestic clocks, then yes.

China is pretty much that in its west since the whole country uses one timezone.

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:43:39 UTC No. 16622553

>>16621211
The most frequently updated file on your computer is the freaking timezone rules.
fr fr

Eyedol at Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:23:46 UTC No. 16624471

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=how+do+timezones+work

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:58:11 UTC No. 16624509

>>16621296
Yes. Afghanistan is on a different time zone from Pakistan because they hate each other and Arizona doesn't use DST because fuck you that's why.

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:00:07 UTC No. 16624511

>>16622553
I used to manage the Time zone data base for in flight navigation systems for a major aerospace electronics manufacture . It was a monthly update.

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:11:19 UTC No. 16624544

>>16624511
>It was a monthly update.
Every single month.
>flight navigation systems
Nothing critical.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 01:33:38 UTC No. 16624671

>>16621211
Wait until burgers go full retard and make daylight savings time permanent instead of the logical standard time and fuck things up further (they tried this once before in the 70s and everyone hated it but they can't learn from mistakes)

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 02:15:01 UTC No. 16624692

>>16621211
Is a little outdated too since depending on your parallel, North or the reverse South, you get more hours of day during summer and less during winter, in opposite order.
Countries end up regulating that by themselves, or sometimes on a individual level.
There's no real model for people to follow like a upgraded timezone model.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 02:25:38 UTC No. 16624695

>>16621211
>>16622553
Vid related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 03:18:53 UTC No. 16624729

>>16624695
Fuck Samoa.

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 04:59:56 UTC No. 16626378

>>16624729
I know, right? Those bastards just had to align with Australia for better trade schedules.
Those little shits fucked up the international date line worse than it already is!
At least they're not like the Line Islands with their UTC+14, the greedy cunts.

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:17:02 UTC No. 16626788

>>16626378
>Line Islands with their UTC+14
>26 hours ahead of some other islands inOceania, such asBaker Island, which usesUTC−12:00.
The absolute inflated sense of importance some people can have of themselves.

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:32:59 UTC No. 16626797

>>16626788
I thought the appeal of the island lifestyle was that it was unencumbered by the fast pace of the rest of the world. Why do they need time coordinated with anything other than local solar noon?

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:43:59 UTC No. 16626804

>>16624671
Some people simply want to force the rest of society to conform to their wish to have more sunlight after work without needing to do something proactive like ask their manager to adjust their hours so they can come in an hour early and leave an hour early. School teachers are especially bad about this as schools in the US tend to have the same start and end times regardless of time of year. I found schools in parts of Latin America are much more flexible, which is funny considering how much of it is closer to the equator.
The people I really hate are the ones who truly believe it creates an extra hour of daylight instead of shifting the numbers on the clock relative to sunlight periods. I used to think no one is that stupid but when you try to talk in depth on the subject with some people, you discover that many of them actually do believe it alters the amount of sunlight over the entire day instead of shifting it relative to the time on the clock.
Where I live should be in the next time zone but because of bordering states, we are at the western side of the wrong time zone. During the summer, we are over two hours out of sync with solar noon.

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 20:03:54 UTC No. 16626871

>>16626804
It's Daylight Savings. It creates daylight based on the interest rate and amount of daylight you saved during the day.
Just like banks.
Always has been.

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 22:11:28 UTC No. 16626964

>>16626871
It's worrying how inflation will cause more than 24 hours of daylight as that will accelerate global warming. Outlaw Daylight Saving Time before the sea levels rise above the summit of Everest.

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 22:58:25 UTC No. 16626985

>>16626964
Some daylight scientists say it may already be too late.
>>16626788
>Line Islands with their UTC+14
>26 hours ahead of some other islands in Oceania, such as Baker Island, which uses UTC−12:00.
Twenty-six hours ahead. We are lost.

Anonymous at Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:55:59 UTC No. 16627325

>>16621211
it actually sounds dumb.
Adopting UTC globally by abolishing the local times and discarding the preconception that the morning begins at 6AM is much better.
My location of UTC+9 would work such that people get up at 16:00(former 7:00) and go to bed at 32:00 (former 23:00).

Anonymous at Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:34:02 UTC No. 16627734

>>16627325
Nobody wants the day to change halfway between breakfast and lunch.

Anonymous at Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:05:26 UTC No. 16627772

>>16627734
that's why I said we go to bed at 32:00.
you can avoid the issue by paraphrasing March 25th at 01:00 by March 24th at 25:00.

Anonymous at Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:08:17 UTC No. 16627777

>>16621211
customary standard for convenience.
the clock time need not agree with the sundial.

Anonymous at Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:06:15 UTC No. 16629885

>>16627734
I remember beat time. There's a phone app that does this even today.

Currently: @670

Anonymous at Thu, 27 Mar 2025 16:40:27 UTC No. 16629928

>>16621211
because you are looking at a 2d map where everything is out of scale and with borders.