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World timezones proposal
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this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2024
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I definitely agree some of the issues they cite are more complicated than they need to be
It would be awesome to base schedules around sunrise (especially sleep, your routine sounds very nice), but the wild variance the further you go from the equator might make that unruly.
Depending on the time of year my schedule would "shift" around multiple hours due to latitude, people in (southern) Norway would have to shift around 6ish hours, all the way to the extreme arctic circle where the sun doesn't rise/set depending on season
I think I could adapt where I live, but I feel like "time of day" would lose all meaning without also knowing time of sunrise, whereas right now I can be reasonably certain how "active" the world is in any given timezone at 9:00 or 23:00
It is definitely interesting to think how different it would be to base everything around sunrise (you'd never really say let's meet at x time, it would always be relative to sunrise), I just struggle in thinking people would be able to break the routine of relying on nice round numbers for time
As I mentioned, we need to rely on technology to manage these things to be efficient, as even something like altitude changes the "sunrise time" - so booking appointments and meetings would be too hard.
It's a fantasy for the most past, we would never see its implementation in our lifetime.
Still very cool to think about
And thank you for the app link, if I ever get flexible enough hours I wonder if that sleep schedule would help my somewhat unhealthy relationship with sleep
Definitely recommended. I've been using it for two years now, and I noticed the seasonal changes don't seem as bad because my alarms don't change depending on daylight savings time (the real enemy here which needs to be abolished).