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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] 3 points 3 days ago

Zulu time is a pilot?

As a software engineer, I express all time in seconds (plus fractional units as necessary) since The Epoch, which happens to be in UTC, which you might know as "Zulu time." But that's in order to keep a worldwide network interoperable, same as you.