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babybird
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Yesterday, 6:30 am

If it was the same time, at the same time in all the countries in all the world; I wonder who would get the better deal


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Yesterday, 2:05 pm

Well first we need to know which time zone you're going to apply to all the others.


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Yesterday, 2:25 pm

Yeah that's where the time wars begins


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Yesterday, 2:40 pm

I would like to put my flag in the ground and claim that the whole wide world set their clocks by Greenwich Mean Time


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Yesterday, 3:09 pm

It already is.
AKA Coordinated Universal Time



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Yesterday, 3:18 pm

Oh that's interesting even though you've
metaphorically just shat on my Weetabix


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Yesterday, 4:32 pm

Yeah it would be UTC, which is GMT.

Doesn't matter a great deal, schools wouldn't all open at 8:30AM even if that was the middle of the night. You'd just reinvent timezones.



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Today, 4:53 pm

Well that's the whole point innit


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