My favorite video about the madness of timezones: https://youtu.be/-5wpm-gesOY. Many great examples, but the one that blows my mind is Israelis and Palestinians living in West Bank observing different timezones in the same geographic location.
Makes my head hurt thinking about long timeframe datasets across geographies and accounting for all of that as these continue to shift.
In the name of logic it seems to me that a worldwide paradigm shift away from human-(un)friendly time zones to UTC with 24 hour clocks would do wonders. We're stuck with our present system, and instransigence means we probably always will be.
Those of us who travel in particular like to know that, absent some cultural anomalies like eating dinner in Spain, local time roughly corresponds to activities where we’re from without constantly doing mental conversions.
Yes, there are a lot of weird often politically-motivated time zones out there but for the most part it works
Ah, yes, the evergreen comment that suggests it would be better if people living far from the meridian experience the joy of Wednesday turning into Thursday at some point whilst they're awake.
we are getting a moon time zone, maybe, eventually, requires international agreement so maybe never
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/09/1243405460/space-news-moon-na...
Why does it require international agreement? This seems like the kind of thing even a private entity like SpaceX could just declare, and everyone else would fall in line naturally out of convenience and not-really-caring.
US government has given spacex like $20 billion, I think you misunderstand who controls who and how
I imagine the Linux timezone database has grown a lot over the years
posted 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41818394
Originally in 2021: