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xkcd #3272: Time Change

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All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.

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[–] TwentySeven@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What about splitting each time zone into 60 parts, so they are in increments on 1 minute instead of one hour?

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 2 points 19 hours ago

Fantastic idea!