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fr i keep saying this and nobody seems to think it's a good idea.
Fuck timezones, me and my homies operate on UTC.
Ive been using utc personally for over a year and i use it in context of vrchat since it yields one less necessary conversion to other people's timezones because only the offset is needed (as opposed to memorizing both offsets, which is much harder because of that nasty nasty daylight savings and its weird anomalies) but they still hate it and tell me to use a "normal" timezone lol. I had gotten 1 person to switch. And she since switched back. Shit don't work in practicality but I'm still gonna use it out of stubbornness
Go play EVE Online. The servers used to have (still, do I think, but shorter) daily downtime that was scheduled using UTC and it led to everyone using UTC since the game server itself used that time.
if i can't have anything nice, you can't have anything nice, and only the people who can't have anything nice will have something nice >:)
There's dozens of us! Yeah practically it's almost entirely an aesthetic effect. I've kept it that way and haven't had any problems from it, though.