100 sats \ 10 replies \ @nemo 21 Sep 2023 \ parent \ on: Abolition of time zones - Wikipedia tech
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The concept of time zones and that they are relative to UTC is already a globally established standard... this ship sailed a long time ago.
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People often already use UTC for stuff like server logs, regardless of their timezone, as it's just less confusing.
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By this thinking Bitcoin / sats is even more centralized than euro.
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Ideally we will end up with a single monetary standard for all humanity. So it's kinda globalization. Just decentralized, grassroots movement. Similarly how it worked with gold in the past.
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Just to clarify, different time zones are all relative to UTC, so really there is already a single standard in use.
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But they change from time to time. For example, if you would like to know, how much seconds have passed since January 1, 1984 in a specific town / country, you need full database what was time zone each year, which years there was DST and which years not. In Latvia it would mean UTC+2 for some years, UTC+3 for others and also there was one year without DST. And also there was leap seconds in the past, at least it's decided to get rid of these.
And remember there is also 30 minute and 45 minute time zone offsets, not everybody uses +/- hours.
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