Stop Screwing with the Time!

[ExigeEvan]

So yeah, what about decimal time, when's that going to happen?

 

[91hondawagon]

If it's of any interest, the aviation world uses Zulu (another name for UTC) time instead of individual time zones. It's pretty useful not having to think about resetting the clock on flights that span more than one time zone; it's always the same time everywhere!

I know it doesn't sound like much to you, but making a time system discontinuous screws with software like you wouldn't believe - especially when you're relying on high precision timing, and especially when it doesn't get announced until a few months before it happens. It screws with it so much that in the biz we use a separate time system altogether - one that doesn't incorporate leapseconds. It's roughly 66 seconds (at the moment) behind your time system. But in order to coordinate events to the local time we have to adjust by the 66 seconds (maybe 67 by the end of the year) - which is a ROYAL pain.

Just out of curiosity, are you talking about UNIX time?

 

[Jetboy.]

I just wish timezones ran straight like Longitude lines. This is rediculous. Look at the international dateline. What the 🤬 is that.

Cheers
Jetboy

 

[ExigeEvan]

If you just used Longtitude lines you'd probably end up splicing cities at some point. Can you imagine how confusing that would be!

 

[Jetboy.]

Small diversions I could understand, but look at China. In the space of the one zone it sits in, there are three separate ones in Russia above. What is that??



Cheers,
Jetboy

 

[LSX]

I'd deal with dark mornings for longer daylight no questions asked. It's the thing I dislike most about fall/winter. I like the sunshine, it's, well I don't know how to put it really, winter blues or whatever? I'd just prefer it to get dark later, I'm still working on normal time now, I don't want to adjust haha.

 

[Joel]

Small diversions I could understand, but look at China. In the space of the one zone it sits in, there are three separate ones in Russia above. What is that??



Cheers,
Jetboy

Because China said so. I'm not lying. China is all one time zone, because the government said so.

 

[Jetboy.]

Because China said so. I'm not lying. China is all one time zone, because the government said so.

That's plain idiocy. So, gathering this correctly, it could be 1700 in a border town in China, and 2000 in a Russian City not 10k's over the line? Does anyone know what time it is?



Cheers,
Jetboy