Striker@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 6 months agoIf only it was like thatlemmy.worldimagemessage-square314fedilinkarrow-up11.05Karrow-down157
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minus-squareSanyanov@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-26 months agoSure, there’s a lot wrong about the way we work with time and date. Months are not even tied to lunar cycles, we have around 13 of them in a year. But conversion from 12 to 24 hour format is already there and easy to switch to without losing anything. Let’s start going rational.
minus-squareThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoOr we could just embrace minor cultural differences instead of smoothing humanity out into boring orthodoxy
minus-squareSanyanov@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoI’m pretty sure the time ans date format is not what makes a culture special, though.
Sure, there’s a lot wrong about the way we work with time and date. Months are not even tied to lunar cycles, we have around 13 of them in a year.
But conversion from 12 to 24 hour format is already there and easy to switch to without losing anything. Let’s start going rational.
Or we could just embrace minor cultural differences instead of smoothing humanity out into boring orthodoxy
I’m pretty sure the time ans date format is not what makes a culture special, though.