From a development perspective it certainly sounds easier to have one global timezone with DST than a bunch of smaller ones without it. Would that make sense in reality? Probably not but I definitely think timezones take more work to compensate for properly.

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 48 points 7 months ago (4 children)

What matters is consistency and our time system has tons of crazy inconsistent shit in our. Everyone knows about leap years, but do you know about leap seconds? Imagine trying to write a function to convert unix time to a current date and suddenly all your times are a second off.

Just look at this insane bullshit nonsense. The added complexity of time zones and daylight saving time is nothing compared to simply supporting our time system.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

We need to synchronize all computer times with that one clock that can stay accurate to within 1 second every 40 billion years.

[–] deur@feddit.nl 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We do? With NTP

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm referring to this one, the most bleeding edge of accuracy. I don't think NIST would have implemented this particular clock (yet).

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