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Lathow
Oct Member 2005

Lathow

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You are basically suggesting a universal timezone. People can just wake up in the morning, whatever the time is in their place. And sleep at night, again whatever the time may be.

I am not trying to steal your idea or anything but I thought about this many years ago. I spoke about getting rid of timezones on SwiftIRC a year or two ago but people called me crazy. Thing is though, all computers use one time (UTC) so why can't humans do the same? Computers aren't smarter, they are just faster.

Here's another reason why this would work. Seasons on the southern hemisphere are the opposite. Christmas is in the middle of the summer. I personally can't imagine spending that day on the beach, to me it's connected with spending time inside with people I know, cold and snow. It never snows here but you get the point lol. To some other people though, it's perfectly normal to be on the beach. The same can be said about the new year. Do you see any sort of 'monthzone' to compensate for this?

If you don't find me crazy after this maybe I managed to get my point across lol. Either way, this would be really cool. And the same can be said about getting rid of daylight saving, an unnecessary reason to change the local time.

(: Hi

14-Jan-2013 00:01:56

Lathow
Oct Member 2005

Lathow

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Pretty much, yeah. 50 years ago, interacting with people from a different country or timezone on a daily basis was something that would make little sense but now it's very common. Even the least antisocial of us spends a considerable time online and the local time is not a very accurate point of reference.

I would strongly support this. But I can't see it happening because pretty much everyone in the world would have to use a system like this and that would be impossible. It's the same as expecting the whole world to follow an international system of units, or a specific leader, or one religion, or something like that.

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14-Jan-2013 01:28:34

Sprited

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Maybe the time zone world wide wont happen in our lifetime, Im sure people will find reasons for why it wont work.

Is there a reason it cannot happen on Runescape though?

Giving the flipside Lathow the idea of it being cold at Christmas to me is terrible, I dont go to beach on Chrissy day but do like it hot :)

14-Jan-2013 02:11:23

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Timezones were invented by railroad companies, around where I live. It made sense when they were made, basically adapting to the sun etc.

Idk if the universal timezone thing would work, because the sun would rise/set at varying times, confusing the hell out of travelers, which is why timezones were invented in the first place.

14-Jan-2013 03:48:57

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