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I'm sick of all you hippies who want free access to a timezone database

Seriously. Who came up with the moronic idea that people somehow "deserve" to know what time it is?

We can totally crowdsource time. If everyone inputs what time they think it is by looking at the sky, we could just take the average of all those inputs and know the absolute time [wisdom of the crowd]

+1 for absolute relative social local time!

Statistically, it will always be just about lunch time, so I think we can just dispense with clocks.

I'd much rather each community select a few people who they think are the best at knowing what time it is and then take an average of them.

Right on! It is about time that computer users buck up and take some personal responsibility. It's not like you can just look up at the sky and figure out what time it is! The hard work of innovators who figure out complex issues like the time need to be compensated!

It'd be funnier if it weren't so, so true.

Indeed. It's not like knowing what time it is, is not valuable. Just think of all the interviews you could make on-time!

Of course, if you want to show up on time, on the correct day, you'll also need to license out access to our date server, in addition to the time server.

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