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DevsBro 12/31/19 11:26:10 AM #1: |
Idiots watching movies won't go whaaaaaaaaaat how can it be dark outside at 11AM
Because screw that Or excuse me, without time zones we also probably all use 24 hr time so it would just be 1100. --- 53 LIII 0b110101 p16 0x35 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Antifar 12/31/19 11:26:49 AM #2: |
No, it's for train scheduling
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DevsBro 12/31/19 11:27:32 AM #3: |
Antifar posted...
No, it's for train schedulingDoes having to convert time zones make scheduling easier? --- 53 LIII 0b110101 p16 0x35 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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The Popo 12/31/19 11:39:05 AM #4: |
DevsBro posted...
Yes --- Live action Hungry Hungry Hippos though, now that was a sport. ~Aeon Azuran ... Copied to Clipboard!
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DevsBro 12/31/19 11:59:06 AM #6: |
The Popo posted...
YesHow? [LFAQs-redacted-quote] The question is why do these have to be different things --- 53 LIII 0b110101 p16 0x35 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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yunalenne10 12/31/19 12:05:00 PM #7: |
Because the Earth rotates.
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DevsBro 12/31/19 12:05:38 PM #8: |
yunalenne10 posted...
Because the Earth rotates.Not seeing a connection. --- 53 LIII 0b110101 p16 0x35 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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lil_GoodOlJr_69 12/31/19 12:07:40 PM #9: |
DevsBro posted...
Metric sucks Synchronized time sucks Get outta here ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Hexenherz 12/31/19 12:10:36 PM #10: |
not sure iif serious
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DevsBro 12/31/19 12:17:36 PM #11: |
There's no real need for SI though. Sure, it would be nice, but your average Joe isn't working out physics problems in his head. He can always just do some conversions beforehand. The one major benefit I can think of is making it easier to compare unit price when one is by ounce and the other is by pound. Or maybe if you don't have appropriate measuring cups.
But time zones screw up everything. We have data coming in from CST and PST, begin converted to UTC on a machine in ESTZ and converted in CSTZ to CST, which is a headache but you only have to do it once... except for the exceptions that also arise from not using UTC. What about DST begin? What about DST end? Cost us thousands this year. Do we need to be concerned about Leap Year? Leap Seconds? --- 53 LIII 0b110101 p16 0x35 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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lil_GoodOlJr_69 12/31/19 1:16:52 PM #13: |
Mr Hangman posted...
There's legitimate complaints to be had about how computers handle time zones, but complaining that they exist at all is just dumb. Is that like a stardate? Can we just use stardate? ... Copied to Clipboard!
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lil_GoodOlJr_69 12/31/19 2:12:17 PM #15: |
I thought stardate was earth centric. Im fine with that
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lil_GoodOlJr_69 12/31/19 2:32:01 PM #17: |
Mr Hangman posted...
You can make it Earth-centric, that's not the problem. Say you're on Earth, keeping time, and I'm on Mars. I ask you what time is it. You send a reply with the exact time you sent the message. It will take between 3 and 22.5 minutes to reach me. The distance varies that much. If I set my time to that I'll be slow. So now I have to compensate for that time delay. To do that I need to know exactly what the delay was. To do that I need to measure the delay of a round-trip message bounce. Of course the distance is also changing a bit all that time. Cant you just estimate the time it would take light to travel to earth, account for that, then use earth time? ... Copied to Clipboard!
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TheGoldenEel 12/31/19 2:47:34 PM #19: |
The time relative to your location is more important than the global synchronized time
imagine telling someone in Europe what time you wake up at, for example. For one person it could be 6am and for the other it would be 4pm in a global society time zones are more helpful for communicating --- The words of The Golden Eel have been revealed... Games: http://backloggery.com/wrldindstries302 \\ Music: http://www.last.fm/user/DrMorberg/ ... Copied to Clipboard!
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