• twoframesperminute@mastodon.social
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    1 year ago

    @Sigmatics you can have everyone on the same time zone and still have different day/night cycles. It just means you have to get up at 14:00 and go to sleep at 5:00. The big problem with this is that the date-switch happens for everyone at the same time, which means you might have breakfast on Thursday and lunch on Friday. That makes it terribly inconvenient, and therefore probably unviable.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah that’s kind of what I meant. People like their days to start at the same time every day. We are creatures of habit.

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        1 year ago

        @Sigmatics Habits can be unlearned over a few generations. Doesn’t mean in becomes practical all if a sudden. It’s just messy to say “I’ll do this tomorrow” when “tomorrow” might mean “before I go to bed”.

        “See you Monday!”
        “Eh, before or after sleep on Monday?”

        It’s just not viable. It requires us to think differently about what a date is, returning the original issue: different people living at different dates.