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Daylight savings (lemmy.world)
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[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The best counter point I've heard for it is that a date change would happen in the middle of the work day for half the world. That does sound tough to deal with

[–] superkret 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Just abolish dates and use Unix Timestamp for everything.

[–] sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago

"See you this evening at 1728326925, okay?"

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

And abolish celebrating birthdays too?

[–] superkret 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

No, you can celebrate your Arch installation anniversary once every thirty million seconds.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Birthdays could happen on the same interval as always

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Once every 31,536,000 seconds... And oh, don't forget to keep track of leap years..