• fristislurperEnglish
    82·
    9 months ago

    Aweful idea: do you want to plan a meeting at 16:00 with colleagues in the US? It is very hard to tell if this makes sense without timezones. Is this in their working day? Or the equivalent of midnight? Or something else? There are no timezones, so there is no way of telling without looking at some shady website how many hours you are shifted - which is basically the concept of timezones anyway, but shittier.

    • taladar@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      I regularly do have to work with and also have friends in other time zones. Despite doing so for the better part of two decades and not being bad at mental maths most of the calculations involved, especially with DST at different start and end dates, are a total headache. It would be much easier to have a list of “person x is available from global time y to z” data and check where that overlaps. Not to mention all the issues around “meeting at the same time every week” when “the same time” has no meaning between two time zones with different DST.

    • Caaaaarrrrlll@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      without looking at some shady website

      On Gnome and on Windows you can add multiple clocks so when you click the time it shows the differences.

      • fristislurperEnglish
        32·
        9 months ago

        But not if there are no timezones! Probably someone would find a way to display the shift anyway, but this is basically the old timezone system again, but without a (more-or-less) universal standard.

        • taladar@feddit.deEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          The universal standard right now is UTC and pretty much any program or other application that is serious about time uses it and only converts to the broken timezone system on display.

      • fristislurperEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        In China the vast vast majority of people live in a single timezone at the coast, so this is not really comparable.