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[–] Sneezydinosaur@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

It's crazy to me how people keep making memes where the group with Florida isn't a part of the mental illness. Really speaks to the severity of their mental illness.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

If we're really committed to not going by solar time, everything should be UTC.

[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 2 points 10 minutes ago

I've made this argument so many times. It just makes things so much easier when dealing internationally

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago

If we're not going by solar time we should go with TAI. Fuck leap seconds.

[–] Spooge@lemmy.world 18 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

I'm an American, and I refuse to switch to metric time.

[–] mech@feddit.org 30 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

OK then keep using your 12 Football innings per school shooting.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Spooge@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

[Runs away hissing] 2026-06-05T18:25:00+00:00

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Why not? What's wrong with having a day composed of 1000 chroners, or 1 kilochroner which can be divided into either 10 centichroners or 100 decachroners?

We can even divide each chroner into 1000 millichroners, or for scientific purposes, a million microchroners, a billion nanochroners, or a trillion picochroners.

So much more sense than 60 seconds times 60 minutes times 24 hours. What even is a second, anyway? When was it defined as a constant, by whom, and against what reference? It's completely arbitrary, I tell you!

And then when you extend that to 7 days, times 4 to 4.43 weeks, times 12 months before you finally get into decimals (decades, centuries, millenia, etc.), it's insanity!

[–] Spooge@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Daylight saving.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 hours ago

Actual metric time was a fiasco I've always been fascinated by

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

UTC isn't metric time. LOL

[–] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

but I live in EST land so therefore it is the best option

[–] smeg@infosec.pub 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's a little bizarre that the Netherlands, or especially Spain, are in the time zone centered on basically Berlin. Damn WW2. The sun doesn't set until nearly 23:00 this time of year, and during winter isn't up until nearly 08:00.

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Sounds pretty normal, even quite lax from a Northern European viewpoint. Is it supposed to be different?

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago (6 children)

What's 'Mountain'? I've seen TV shows advertised as Eastern, then their voice gets quiet and they mention Central. Sometimes they do the same for Pacific. Never heard of 'Mountain.' Sounds fake.

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 2 points 26 minutes ago

It's 245pm in California right now.

If you go to parts of Arizona they might tell you it's 345pm. Ask in Phoenix and they'll say 245pm.

Ask in Phoenix in the winter and they remember to say hour different from Pacific time.

They can't get the story straight.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 hours ago

Never heard of 'Mountain.' Sounds fake.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 31 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

What’s ‘Mountain’?

Its a really big hill that is hard to climb.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 hours ago

Surely you can't be serious?

- Kate Bush and Sisyphus, simultaneously

[–] Spooge@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago

"It's Mountain Time" is what your mom says when she calls me.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

They claim it includes New Mexico, but I don't see why we'd have a new Mexico when the old one is still perfectly good. Sounds fake to me

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

The area that New Mexico occupies was named Nuevo Mexico before Mexico existed and was called Mexico, which makes Nex Mexico, OG Mexico.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

there's only like 8 people there, so it doesn't really matter.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

People on mountain time have mountains to entertain them, so they dont watch tv

[–] CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I’m one of them. At least 3 of us are on Lemmy!

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Statistically, that's impressive!

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I guess we don't have the concept of time in Canada (or Mexico) based on this map. Thats also ignoring all of the other world timezones

edit: I'd also label anything American mental illness but I'd be catching my own strays given I'm in EST

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 hours ago

Confirmed. I’m in Canada and I’m always late.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Looking at you, China.

[–] Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Must be wild living somewhere in the middle of a state right at a time zone border

Specially that eastern Oregon / western Idaho pocket where you gain an hour going far enough north, south, or west lol

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

I lived within 20 min of the EST and CST split for a couple years. It is wild. Doing anything informal like meeting with friends was fine because we'd just say "come by in 2 hours." Other times it was awful, leaving home at 7:45pm to go to the grocery store across town and arriving 90 minutes later after they closed sucked lol

[–] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago

Nah. Not really. Time zones don't follow state boundaries because they generally follow natural population boundaries.

[–] Imperious_melange@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

The ISS uses UTC but they have a sunrise and sunset every 45 minutes so it's not really connected to the sun like us terrestrials.

[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

They should never have done away with Specific Time.