I wonder how long timezones will remain. With artificial light and global comms not much need (and a fair cost), yet timekeeping inertia is great - we are after all somewhat on Babylonian time, and adopting the Gregorian calendar took centuries. Maybe when off-planet majority?
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w/o time zones, it's harder to tell when it's a reasonable time to schedule a chat w/ someone. If my 12:00 is Moscow's 12:00… uh… I guess I have to ask what their sleep cycle is? The whole thing gets messy in a different way.
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Yeah I found a long article awhile back (not sure where now) that tried to create a system for answering these questions without timezones, and…
…it ended up being isomorphic to timezones.
This isn't it but it's a sorta similar rant:
zachholman.com/talk/utc-is-en
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Yes! I remember the uncle in Australia.
Now realizing google hooks me up if I search `timezone uncle australia reinvent` and scroll down far enough.
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