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Why don't the whole planet just use UTC+00:00 / Universal Time without time zones? (programming.dev)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Pro@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Why isn't this a popular thing?

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[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

While 1200 might be noon for one, another might just get used to 0800 to be noon.

Aside from the fact that that's just timezones with extra steps?

Who says 0000 must be midnight and 1200 noon?

Thousands of generations of human history/prehistory? We are used to being awake during the day because we use vision so much for everything we do, so we sleep when it's dark.