I've seen people, usually programmers, suggest we should get rid of timezones and all use UTC because it'd make everything simpler.
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I've seen people, usually programmers, suggest we should get rid of timezones and all use UTC because it'd make everything simpler. I have said this before too. But it's funny if you think through what would actually happen.
- Timezones are abolished
- People start coming up with their own systems to denote the relative time of day because that's important. They are no less complex than timezones.
- They demand these new systems get implemented in software.
- Timezone implementations still need to be kept around for historical data.
- Now everything is twice as complicated.
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