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GeneralRe: World votes to abolish leap seconds Pin
Nelek22-Nov-22 1:38
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trønderen22-Nov-22 2:35
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Nelek22-Nov-22 5:10
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trønderen22-Nov-22 2:33
trønderen22-Nov-22 2:33 
Again, I'd like to point out the solution chosen by China ("which we call red China"...): Even though the rest of the world insists on having different clocks, causing a lot of coordination problems, we will agree on one single time. All of China is a single time zone.

Sure enough: Sunrise will be at 06:00 in one end of the country and at 10:00 in the other end. So what? Sunrise has never occurred at the same moment all over China, anyway! It is at different times, so why not label it by different times?

For some strange reason, we insist that all over the world, people going to work two hours after sunrise shall call the start of their working hours '08:00', even though that really has 24(+) different interpretations worldwide. We do accept that farmers start their work at 05:00, carpenters at 06:00 and food store clerks at 10:00, all in one single area, so why is it a problem for you to start work at 11:00, two hours after sunrise in your area, when others start working at 02:00, two hours after sunrise in their area?

It is a pity that China, when they made this change, didn't go directly to UTC time, but settled on the old Beijing time, so that there was no change for the central authorities. If they had rather gone for the "Coordinated Universal Time", it would have been much more natural for other countries to follow suit. Everyone thinks one common world time is great as long as we settle on my time! West Coasters would love the world to go for PST, Midwesteners think CST is the natural compromise between east and west, and East Coasters think like the Beijingers: That the capital should decide (... a standard time for the entire world ...). Londoners of course insist that we have one world standard already, our time is the best!

I tend to agree with the Londoners: We should go for UTC all over the world. That would solve a lot of problems. There is no great advantage in having everyone labeling their office opening hours '08:00', when it can mean 24(+) different things. Besides, Londoners label their office opening hours '09:00' Smile | :)
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