The problem is not the times you do stuff - it's that for half the worl, the date would suddenly change in the middle of the day. "It's my birthday! But only from 1pm today to 1pm the next day" fails a basic sanity check - the notion of 'today' becomes bunk.
Year wearing clothes does not increase cancer rates by any noticeable amount.
I wonder if that study has ever been done. A cursory search reveals that many nudists are concerned that they may be more prone to skin cancer, but I saw nothing about temperature-related effects.
I find email works well because I can choose when to glance at it to see whether it's important.
IMs, on the other hand, I find as bad as being interrupted in person - in fact, often they're worse, especially when they follow the pattern "Hi" *30 seconds* "Have you got a moment?" *30 seconds* "Just a quick question" *30 seconds*
That's the best part of two minutes during which not only have I forgotten whatever I was juggling in my head, but that 'experienced developer' asking the question has failed to learn to type at any speed in a decade or three of keyboard use.
Doubly so if the person is sitting where they could walk round and ask faster than they can type their question...
The issue of daylight would be dealt with locally.
The issue of date on the other hand becomes a whole lot more awkward. You either have the date change at 00:00 everywhere, which means that for much of the world it changes during the day (it's my birthday! but only until lunchtime!), or in the middle of the night locally, meaning that now I know what time it is anywhere in the world but no idea what date it is.
That would seem to be a harder problem than simply agreeing times in UTC, which we could do today, and people just doing the conversion to/from their local time as necessary.
And don't even get me started on people who thing that GMT is the same as UK time all year long...
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As a Brit, I'm ashamed to say that's a good description of 40-60% of the British electorate, particularly the older generations. :-(
The problem is not the times you do stuff - it's that for half the worl, the date would suddenly change in the middle of the day. "It's my birthday! But only from 1pm today to 1pm the next day" fails a basic sanity check - the notion of 'today' becomes bunk.
Ireland has used the Euro since 2002.
The UK uses 240 volts AC, you insensitive clod!
Year wearing clothes does not increase cancer rates by any noticeable amount.
I wonder if that study has ever been done. A cursory search reveals that many nudists are concerned that they may be more prone to skin cancer, but I saw nothing about temperature-related effects.
I find email works well because I can choose when to glance at it to see whether it's important.
IMs, on the other hand, I find as bad as being interrupted in person - in fact, often they're worse, especially when they follow the pattern
"Hi"
*30 seconds*
"Have you got a moment?"
*30 seconds*
"Just a quick question"
*30 seconds*
That's the best part of two minutes during which not only have I forgotten whatever I was juggling in my head, but that 'experienced developer' asking the question has failed to learn to type at any speed in a decade or three of keyboard use.
Doubly so if the person is sitting where they could walk round and ask faster than they can type their question...
The issue of daylight would be dealt with locally.
The issue of date on the other hand becomes a whole lot more awkward. You either have the date change at 00:00 everywhere, which means that for much of the world it changes during the day (it's my birthday! but only until lunchtime!), or in the middle of the night locally, meaning that now I know what time it is anywhere in the world but no idea what date it is.
That would seem to be a harder problem than simply agreeing times in UTC, which we could do today, and people just doing the conversion to/from their local time as necessary.
And don't even get me started on people who thing that GMT is the same as UK time all year long...
Another expression where the order of evaluation is critical...