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		jefftk on July 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It’s time to leave the leap second in the past It sounds like you would have been opposed to the introduction of timezones? They made everyone switch away from local solar time, primarily for the benefit of railway timetables.

barnabee on July 25, 2022 | [–]

I’m not particularly attached to time zones, so perhaps I would have opposed introducing them.

Sticking with local solar time in the age of jet planes would have been at least as much fun as daylight saving time.

nrvn on July 25, 2022 | [–]

This is me.

I want everyone to use UTC and align local lunch times to solar noons.

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