"What are timezones?"
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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Twenty dollars is twenty dollars.
Screw you! $1 = $1
According to that logic, $2 would be $2 and that's insane!
But by that logic, $three would be = 3 dollars.
But by that logic
bash: three: command not found
God I love Lemmy.
Isn't it just the best?
Time zones? What, like I step over a line on the ground and I'm in the future? Pfffft.
It's so much worse than that. The people in the GMT +13 time zone had 19 hours to warn us about 9/11 in 2001, and they did nothing!
New Zealand... We demand you tell us what the future is like.
Well yeah, they're all old and forgetful. They could come West and be younger but they don't care. They're old.
If you go to the North pole and run around in circles you can easily get years into the past.
That's a common misconception. Magnetic north declination from geographic north increases to its maximum as one approaches the geographic north pole (by definition). Yes, technically, your geographic time may reverse by years, but the increase in magnetic time, being equal and opposite, will effectively cancel out that effect.
Sure but you forgot one thing. Gravity.
Gravity pulls down, so when you go towards the North Pole you are actually getting further from gravity and that lesser force still pushes the entire effect into the positive. If you tried this in the south pole you would actually get older!
It would if the earth were a perfect sphere, but in reality, it's an oblate sphereoid. This means that an observer actually gets closer to the center of gravity as one approaches a pole.
Maybe. But everyone knows gravity pulls "down" and not "towards the center of the oblate spheroid" (nonsense word made up by """mathematicians""" to make us look like fools)
I think you win this time. I spent a week trying to think of a clever comeback, but it's just not happening.