You guys have a limited imagination! In the near future, timezone conversion will be frictionless. Thanks to AI voice communication can automatically convert time and text-based communication can do this earlier. Don't forget Skype can now translate voice in real time!
Because we need to know approximately the time left till dawn or dusk without having to calculate it every time in every timezone we currently are in. In fact, the date is a problem we invented - time of the day is natural, the location of the sun in the day.
While fixing everything about times and dates seems great in the abstract, these guys sound approximately like the French revolutionaries proposing their new calendar.
And at least the French came up with new names when they were doing things differently. The headaches that come from relabeling the calendar -- to one that looks confusingly the same, except that "January 1" has a different meaning than it used to -- would probably cause a century of bugs and confusion.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 41.0 ms ] threadCalendars, timezones, unit measures, currencies are self inflicted pain.
But I think you underestimate how adaptable humans are. You would get used to midday being 18:00h very fast.
And at least the French came up with new names when they were doing things differently. The headaches that come from relabeling the calendar -- to one that looks confusingly the same, except that "January 1" has a different meaning than it used to -- would probably cause a century of bugs and confusion.
"You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform" http://qntm.org/calendar
"So you want to abolish time zones" http://qntm.org/abolish
Its surprising how quickly you get a grasp of the units, made me realise all our time stuff is just arbitrary convention.
See also Swatch internet time :)
Online gaming is a good use for it.
MS should buy it off Swatch and put it in minecraft.