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   Corey (lifesahaskell@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 07:36:10 JST Corey

   Never roll your own date time library kids

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 22:18:18 JST SuperDicq

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     • Dr. Quadragon ❌

     @LifesAHaskell@mastodon.social @drq@mastodon.ml I personally believe the calendar can be simplified extremely in ways that won't even be very noticeable or very hard for people to get used to.
     
     For example we could just make every month of the year 30 days. Why the hell not? We just have to add 5 or 6 days at the end of the year depending on leap year. And of course we should abolish daylight savings worldwide, but only if everyone is in. Also countries that use AM/PM are wrong and should switch to 24 hour clock.
     
     Personally I'm more of a drastic calendar change enthusiast, but I know getting mainstream for this is impossible:
     
     I propose one single global timezone (UTC), no more conversions will ever be needed. Yes that means for Americans for example you will have to start work at 2:00 UTC instead of "9:00 AM" or whatever that means, you'll get used to it.
     
     We should start counting years from 1970, it is currently the year 54. We should abolish AD/BC notations, just use a negative number for any year before the unix epoch.
     
     For years, using the Holocene calendar (12024) is a compromise that I am willing to accept. Getting rid of any system that is biased towards Christianity I approve of.
     
     Weeks should be 6 days, not 7. This means if months are always 30 days (like I proposed previously) a week will fit neatly into a month and the first of the month is always on a Monday, etc.

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     Corey (lifesahaskell@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 22:18:19 JST Corey

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     @drq @LifesAHaskell daylight savings isn’t making the problem any easier either.

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     Dr. Quadragon ❌ (drq@mastodon.ml)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 22:18:20 JST Dr. Quadragon ❌

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     @LifesAHaskell It's not the library, it's the calendar that sucks.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 22:34:43 JST SuperDicq

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     @0@gh0st.live @drq@mastodon.ml @LifesAHaskell@mastodon.social I want the sun to come up at the same time every time on my clock even though I choose to live on a planet with axial tilt.Absolutely deranged.

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     0 (https://gh0st.live/users/0)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 22:34:45 JST 0

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     • Dr. Quadragon ❌
     @SuperDicq @drq @LifesAHaskell
     
     > And of course we should abolish daylight savings worldwide, but only if everyone is in.
     
     "Sunset should be at 4 pm because DST confuses me."
     
     lmao.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 22:35:02 JST SuperDicq

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     @0@gh0st.live @drq@mastodon.ml @LifesAHaskell@mastodon.social
     Making the clock follow the actual rotation of the planet makes a lot more sense than everyone changing their clock to whatever they see in the sky from their point of view.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 22:39:29 JST SuperDicq

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     @0@gh0st.live @drq@mastodon.ml @LifesAHaskell@mastodon.social I am not a city dweller but this ridiculous map actually upsets me.
     
     There's one compromise that I'm willing to accept and that's to have timezomes but at least make the lines straight and not make them follow random arbitrary lines around borders and stupid shit like that.

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     0 (https://gh0st.live/users/0)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 22:39:30 JST 0

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     @SuperDicq @drq @LifesAHaskell
     
     So deranged that it's a global phenomena without coordination, only city dwelling mutants are upset by it, and they're not really people.