So I was thinking when I looked at the clock in my car today, regarding our time system and the many many faults it had. I had always wanted a single time system, no matter where in the world you are. No more PST, no more EST, no more PDT, no more China time, no more England time, no more etc etc, just 1 system. No more remember how many hours difference between here and Tokyo is. 8am in Seattle = 8am in California = 8am in New York = 8am in London = 8am in Hong Kong. That might mean going to work between 11pm and 8am, not like many of us geeks don’t already, but the time system should not dictate when you go to work. With a system like this, you will no longer get confused when you enter a different time zone. You don’t lose or gain hours anymore when you fly half way around the world. Setting up meetings across time zones becomes way much easier.
That system would fix a lot of problems, but there is oen problem that it will not fix: Daylight Saving Time. No matter how I look at it, Daylight Saving Time is going to be causing some trouble. In the system I suggested, Daylight Saving Time will no longer work, unless you can get the whole world to follow and shift time 1hr forward or 1hr backward. I agree to the benefits of Daylight Saving Time. In this case, we’ll need to shift the responsibilities onto the companies themselves, which probably over half won’t follow due to complications, so we end up losing the benefits of Daylight Saving Time.
How would one solve such a problem. Would it worth it to give up DST and use a World System? I personally think it is.
Random Crap:
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(img) (ﾛﾅ)ＬＥＧＯ – Lego Ronald
(img) ぞうきんがけするnya – Cute Kitten on Towel
(img) 乃 – Chairs on a Hill – Seems like two chairs like each other better than the other.
(img) shall we dance? – Beauty and the Beast sculpture
(img) 静馬 – Flip
(vid) 鳩にエサをやらないでください – Agitated Pigeon – I miss Trigger Happy TV.
Full Metal Sonic (from deadlock) – Another Full Metal Alchemist parody opening, but this time instead of Final Fantasy XI characters, we have Sonic the Hedgehog characters including Sonic as Al, Tails as Ed, Amy as Windy, and several others which I didn’t want to compare. hehe.
The Madagascar Penguins – In A Christmas Caper (direct download) – found this and thought it was a pretty cool short animation. Not on par with Pixar’s, but definitely cute. It’s a little Christmas story starring the penguins from Madagascar.
Riya – Photo Search (from /.) – here’s the article from Wired News. I’d love to check out this software when it becomes available for the general public and see how good it is at recognizing people. I think the ultimate test would be able to tell identitical twins apart.
NES Sniper Rifle (from deadlock) – G4 engineer David Randolph shows Kevin Pereira how he constructed the world’s first Duck Hunt sniper rifle. Apparently the light gun works just as I explained previously. When you pull the trigger, the screen goes black with a white box appears where the duck is. If the gun picks up on black, the duck doesn’t die. If the picks up on the light, it’s a miss. The Snapper (Snipe Zapper) looks pretty sweet.
The “yes” man – A hilarious student film (I’m assuming). You’ve got to wait for the punch line. Only hint I’m going to give is that it has to do with some telecommunication service provider. I
Wanted: Mate for lovesick giraffe in Mexico park – “He’s driving us crazy,” Juan Aragones told Reuters in a telephone interview. “He’s mounted a tree, a fence and even a shed.”
Apple Mac OS X on x86: a first test – Steve Jobs might not approve, but Apple’s latest operating system can be installed on any x86 hardware. How well does it function? Read our preliminary labs test to find out. photos here. The test machine was a Toshiba Portégé M300 notebook equipped with a 1.2GHz Pentium M processor and 512MB of RAM.