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[โ€“] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] BitSound@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

The difference is that you're not changing how time is kept. Countries can change their timezone offsets right now to screwy things like +12:45 and it changes how time is recorded and stored. If we switch to UTC, a country can just declare their official hours are shifting and nobody has to fundamentally change how clocks work.