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372 Mini - Time for Timer (Patreon)

Published:
2021-11-03 19:03:14
Edited:
2023-12-19 19:49:34
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Please help Mike and Conor work through one of the most important issues of this or any age. 

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Taylor Conner

Let me start by saying I have the utmost respect for Mike as a human being and I am certain he did not intend any of what I am about to put forth. I was trying to think about the idea from Mike’s perspective: Why not adopt a sort of Worldwide Clock? No more confusing time zones! Then I thought: for all the work it would take to implement this, who would benefit from it the most? To my horror, it was obvious that the primary beneficiary of Mike’s proposal would be one of the most evil inventions in mankind’s history: meetings. In the end, all this change would do is allow for more streamlined teleconferencing. Think about it: the whole purpose of this change would be to, ostensibly, unite the globe by adopting a single, standardized clock. But how would that play out practically? Would it make people want to travel more? Every region of the world would now have different hours that stood for morning, noon, and night. If anything a new sort of regionalism would probably spring up and make traveling less attractive. The main advantage would be easier long-distance communication. Sure, Zoom calls with distant loved ones would supposedly be easier to plan, but we all know by now that this is a pale imitation of real interpersonal connection. But you know who doesn’t care about authentic connection, provided that the whole team is present, from London to Seoul, with Cathy from R&D patching in halfway through? Work! This would ultimately be a benefit to global commerce above all. And can you imagine a truly global company with an international workforce in a world that no longer had a standardized definition of “morning” or “night”? You would be expected to be at your computer for a staff-wide meeting at 3 AM, no matter what position the sun was in for you. Maybe I’m overreacting, but we have all seen how the demands of the global world we now live in do not stop when the sun goes down. Time zones actually help preserve for us the natural order of a sunrise-to-sunset day of life.

JoshuaJSlone

In this case I am very like Mike. I too was a crank on the topic at least as far back as high school. I'm from Indiana, which was one of the few places in the nation that didn't observe DST, so my early knowledge of it was just that twice a year television shows would change times by an hour. "What the hell are they doing?" Eventually within this century even Indiana joined the cult. It was divisive, but pushed through by some politicians bending procedure who were very emphatic about how being in sync with the rest of Eastern time zone on a more permanent basis would be a big boon. Of course it has made zip nada difference. My brother can confirm that during the first few years, I taped pieces of paper stating "FAKE TIME" on several clocks in our house. Re time zones, I agree with the problems with them as well, but do think they're a bit too established to just yank out at this time. Some propose a second, parallel time system running along with our current one. That way there's no sense of one time zone being the "right" one, and everyone can still have local midnights and noons and afternoons where such a thing can be useful, but for worldwide coordination we'd fall onto the alternate. The one I remember from my earlier days on the Internet was an Internet Time pushed by the watch company Swatch, where each day was split into 1000 beats, and they produced watches that provided this alternate measure. So in this way it can be 9am for one person, 2pm for another, and 5pm for a third; but if they all agree to record a podcast at 650 beats they'll all be on time.