Good time to remind ourselves to always log in UTC. Yes, always, no exceptions.
Thinking about the future, if humans as a species become interplanetary, keeping up with lunar time, asteroid belt time, martian time,etc.. is going to be a mess. UTC is the only way to go.
timezones are artifacts of olden days where people didn't communicate across great distances and worked fixed daylight hours. Much like being able to speak the same language, being able to use the same time across vast distances is a huge boost to productivity and progress. This is kind of like using the metric system, vs using local/traditional measurements (like the US does).
> Thinking about the future, if humans as a species become interplanetary, keeping up with lunar time, asteroid belt time, martian time,etc.. is going to be a mess. UTC is the only way to go.
You can approximate UTC elsewhere in the universe, but it's going to be weird. You'll have the vary the length of your seconds as your velocity relative to Earth changes.
If we regularly have groups of people away from the earth, we'll probably want to follow a time standard that approximates a clock at the center of mass of the solar system.
Thinking about the future, if humans as a species become interplanetary, keeping up with lunar time, asteroid belt time, martian time,etc.. is going to be a mess. UTC is the only way to go.
timezones are artifacts of olden days where people didn't communicate across great distances and worked fixed daylight hours. Much like being able to speak the same language, being able to use the same time across vast distances is a huge boost to productivity and progress. This is kind of like using the metric system, vs using local/traditional measurements (like the US does).