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		SonOfLilit on Nov 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop ... Today it is within I think +-3 hours of earth time (China being the worst offender), because of timezones and DST. If it ever gets worse than half an hour in a country, they can always change the timezone... or just, like, change businesses' opening hours and stuff.

gpvos on Nov 19, 2022 [–]

We have summer and winter time because that turns out to be easier than changing business hours. But I was just talking about UTC really.

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