No? UTC by definition doesn’t know time zones.

Let’s say the European goes to work at 8 o’clock UTC. The American in this example goes to work 6 hours later at 14 o’clock UTC. Both now exactly when the other one is in office. Time zones aren’t needed here.

Time zones are an invention to keep the zero hour (for hour counting) at about the same local time - midnight. Midnight was easier to determine that UTC (or GMT). A peasant could do it in a day without the help of expensive tools everywhere on Earth. As a matter of fact almost each city in medieval times had its own local time. To get that sorted out they where clustered into time zones.

Time to nerd this shit! 🥸

There were several counting systems:

• In Old Egypt and in the medieval times they counted 12 day hours from sunrise to sundown and another 12 night hours from sundown to sunrise. A lot of systems do/did that because one tracked the sun and the other tracked the moon and the stars. It’s more like as 12 + 12 hours system instead of a 24 hours system.
• In the Babylonian system the day had 24 hours, beginning at sunrise. The name has nothing to do with the ancient Babylonians though. 🤷‍♂️
• The Italian system was the same as the Babylonian system but began counting at sundown. This is also the case in the Hebrew and Islamic calendar. Btw that’s the reason why Christmas night starts at the 24th of December in some countries (like Germany) and the 25th of December in other countries (like USA). The former converted from the old date/time system to the modern done while the later just went ‘Nah! We’ll do what the Bible says.’
• The ancient Babylonians had danna, double hours. Hence a day had 6 day and 6 night dannas.
• Then there are still used 12 hour clock dividing the day in ante meridiem (before midday) and post meridiem (after midday). It is mainly used in Britain and countries that were ruled by the British Empire.
• There’s the current 24 hour clock starting and ending at midnight.
• There is the Julian Day where the counting -again- starts at sunrise. It is still used(!) in astronomy.
• There is Rammesses II’s hour calendar where the number of day and night hours changed depending on the month. June-July had 18 day and 6 night hours. December-January had 6 day and 18 night hours. Why does a country near the equator need 18 day or night hours? It’s not that the day and night length change that much during the seasons. 🤷‍♂️
• The Chinese calendar changed several times. Each day started and ended at midnight (like today) and initially was divided in 100 ke (1 ke = 14.4 minutes). Later that number changed to 120 (12 * 10), 108 (because 12 * 9) and 96 (12 * 8). When they also introduced double hours, ke became 15 minutes long. The double hours started counting at 23:00.
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Also it isn’t a bad idea to work less hours in winter so you can experience the sun at all.

In the times before the light bulb work could only be done during the day. Candles made from beewax were too expensive for the peasants. If they used candles instead of kindling they were made from tallow and created a lot of smut and didn’t gave much light. That made them a bit unpopular. I wonder why? 👤
At least in my country work days were divided in morning, midday, afternoon and night. You worked your field during the morning, went to market at midday, did handyman work and chores during afternoon and slept during night time.

Also Trump did say he wasn’t going to do Project 2025 during the campaign.

Nobody has any intention of building a wall.

- said Walter Ulbricht, head of state of the GDR in 1961, two months before he ordered to build the Berlin Wall.

Or gender studies. I still don’t know what that is about.

You can also try philosophy so you can philosophize about why this choice was bad.
Who tf hires someone with a degree in philosophy?

What kind of stigma? In Europe there is none. Bikes are considered a reasonable alternative to cars but less convenient.

Most music streaming services charge about 10 bucks per month. Maybe Qobuz offers rebates every few months.

Title: You wouldn’t believe what I found.

It’s a rock and sand desert. There never was wind to even out the surface. It’s a challenge to find level ground big enough for a lander.

I want an implant that can regulate body functions and even rejuvenate & regenerate me.

What would that mean?

• Forever young
• Adonis/Venus body
• Some sort of self-healing capability
• Some sort of body-shaping capability
• Possibly immortal

…and let 'murica pay for it.

That’s an interesting take! Maybe I should do that too, when I restart learning Italian again.
Une, due, tre. Short and simple enough for me!
Or I go the masochist route and name them il ragazzo, la ragazza, i ragazzi and le ragazze. :D

I didn’t meant the newlines. ^^

Is that a new kind of masochism?

What? Automated food supply?

BUY! BUY! BUY!

I like the tape. Won’t hold but also won’t fall apart especially if you want to remove it. The right kind of mixture to make yourself hate yourself. :D

he FCC chairman said Europe’s regulations against US firms are “excessive” and “incompatible” with American values.

What values? Greed?
There are some extremely greedy Europeans no doubt. But the most of us pursue a happy life instead of a rich life.

He believes that these laws (…) are suppressing free speech in the EU.

These laws are there because companies feast on them illegally. Is this dude fit being the chairman of the FCC if he can’t get that right?

It remains to be seen how the US administration will choose to defend Big Tech against the numerous lawsuits in the EU.

They can do exactly one thing: Nothing. The judicial branch of the EU is completely independent from the other branches, unlike the SCOTUS. Our judges don’t care about what nonsense Trump is spouting.

Thank you very much!

That was quick!

In the USA something like 8% of adults have ideal metabolic health, that means 92% have a compromised immune system

Do you have a (written) source for that? I want to see how they came up with the numbers. Should be interesting.

I read the news just to entertain myself. And then I ignore the content because most news are just depressing: Armed conflict here, murder there, capital offense, you get the gist.

For several months I didn’t read any news, that works too. You’ll realize that most of the stuff in the tv and tabloids doesn’t affect you.

And for the third point I do whatever it takes to distract, lose in or occupy myself completely. That could be a book with a nice story or some outdoor activity. Yesterday I did some kind of mini-camping. I took my bicycle and brought a camping chair, gas stove, water and cocoa powder and rode a bit into the woods. And then I had some quiet relaxing time reading a book on my phone. The hot chocolate and a thick jacket kept me from freezing. It was only 10 °C/50 °F and a bit windy.
I’ll repeat that tomorrow but this time I’ll switch the cocoa to tomato-soup-in-a-cup. The cocoa was too sweet for my taste.