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Why don't the whole planet just use UTC+00:00 / Universal Time without time zones? (programming.dev)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Why isn't this a popular thing?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Imagine if every time you read a news report, or work of fiction, or gardening manual, or anything where the time of day is relevant, you’d need to know what longitude the text originated at and then mentally convert it to your familiar local time before you know whether the events described are in the morning, afternoon, or night.