• pemptago
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    5 hours ago

    Fair point. Though it might help that the date would change, globally, at the same time. Our current setup is not flawless regarding dates.

    Currently, plotting daily events that happen before and after midnight, like sleep, is not straightforward.

    Also, anyone who stays up past midnight or works the night shift experiences this already.

    When scheduling with folks in drastically different time zones (one’s night is the other’s next-day morning) you need to account for the hour and the day. If an event is scheduled for the 2nd monday of the month it’ll be their 2nd tuesday, sometimes, or their 3rd, depending on what day the month starts on.

    It seems to reveal an issue that we use “day” to mean multiple things: the objective increment between month (or week) and hour, and the personal increment after a sleep cycle. Timezones muddle the two by adapting the former to resemble the later.