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aeyes on Oct 12, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Metric Time

They used CET as a reference, the local timezone of the Swatch headquarters.

robobro on Oct 12, 2023 [–]

I get that it's all arbitrary, but if we're going to go for a global time system, just makes sense to me to try and align with already-existing universal standards. Both UTC +0000 and UTC +0100 are pretty alien to me as someone in UTC +0800 so it's not like I have any bias toward Switzerland or the UK either way...

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