• ricecake
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    1 month ago

    Then it’s really weird that people typically ask “what time is it there?” before they ask “when are you free?” isn’t it?

    People orient themselves to each other as part of communication. Sure, it’s weird that we often like to know when in the day it is for the other person, but we do.

    Nothing is stopping anyone from talking about time in UTC, yet people essentially never do. That doesn’t make them wrong, it just means our requirements for “time of day” are more nuanced than coordinating business meetings.

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      1 month ago

      Then it’s really weird that people typically ask “what time is it there?”

      Usually that is only ever asked as a short-hand because a lot of people don’t understand timezones well enough.