It's Time For A Change: datetime.utcnow() Is Now Deprecated (blog.miguelgrinberg.com)

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[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 9 points 10 months ago

Timezones are a disease and should be eradicated. I will die on this hill.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

Agreed. I'm an American and wish we could just all be on UTC. Yeah, my workday would start at like 0200, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

[-] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Everyone on UTC sounds like such a great idea that would solve so many problems.

Unfortunately humans are so dependent on daylight and the day night cycle that it will never work

[-] twoframesperminute@mastodon.social 4 points 10 months ago

@Sigmatics you can have everyone on the same time zone and still have different day/night cycles. It just means you have to get up at 14:00 and go to sleep at 5:00. The big problem with this is that the date-switch happens for everyone at the same time, which means you might have breakfast on Thursday and lunch on Friday. That makes it terribly inconvenient, and therefore probably unviable.

[-] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca -1 points 10 months ago

Yeah that's kind of what I meant. People like their days to start at the same time every day. We are creatures of habit.

[-] twoframesperminute@mastodon.social 1 points 10 months ago

@Sigmatics Habits can be unlearned over a few generations. Doesn't mean in becomes practical all if a sudden. It's just messy to say "I'll do this tomorrow" when "tomorrow" might mean "before I go to bed".

"See you Monday!"
"Eh, before or after sleep on Monday?"

It's just not viable. It requires us to think differently about what a date is, returning the original issue: different people living at different dates.