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[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 143 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The creator of DST gets the first slap. Then the timezones asshole.

I'm planning to do a presentation at work on how to deal with dates/times/timezones/conversion/etc in the next few weeks some time. I figure it would be a good topic to cover. I'm going to start my talk by saying "first, imagine there is no such thing as timezones or DST." And then build on that.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago

Imagine, if we were just all on the same time. It'd just make things, a little easier.

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 62 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

All in the same time? But... Then the sun might go down at noon. That doesn't make sense...

Wait... Noon? Noooon...

The word noon comes from a Latin root, nona hora, or "ninth hour." In medieval times, noon fell at three PM, nine hours after a monk's traditional rising hour of six o'clock in the morning. Over time, as noon came to be synonymous in English with midday, its timing changed to twelve PM.

Oh now that's worse

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

We must establish a new order of monks, who all get up at 6am UTC. We can call them in sync

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