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Timezones are NOT needed for anything. Your proposal would make them even worse. Most of the EU shares the same time zone already now and I would be happy seeing them gone for good everywhere. What you propose would bring more of them and cause clock changes even within one country/city, maybe even city block... No, getridoftimezones.org!

Yes, Yes, Yes!!!
And someone has already registered "getridoftimezones.org" ;-)

I would like 12:00 noon every day to coincide with a local solar maximum.

Why? And what for? Relativity aside - time is one. Everywhere on the planet. UTC is the way to go.

Exactly! except that we should talk about UTC, rather than GMT.

UTC is the way to go! About the only two drawbacks are that some people will have to get used to a)date/day of week change somewhere during daytime, and b) celebrating New Year in full sunlight, which makes fireworks less impressive ;-)

Both the timezones and the DST are obsolete, confusing, error prone, useless and completely unnecessary pieces of crap that bring more harm than good. Somebody has even registered "getridoftimezones.org" already :-) P. S. Where errors and confusion can be too costly to bear (aviation, military, ...) people got rid of those things long ago.

Some people are too stupid to handle "real" computers and some are too stupid to learn how malware is classified and what a malware index is. Hint: OSX/CoinThief.A is NOT a name of the program in question.

.. which is time zones in the first place. They stem from the times when circumnavigating the globe took months if not years, and even back then it was not really useful. Time zones in general bring more harm than good and they only exist in order to feed our habits of having specific digits on the clock when we do various things. Whenever there is a need for something unambiguous and not susceptible to errors people learned long ago that the only way is to use single time description for the whole planet. Aviation, military and many other services use the only reasonable, unambiguous time description: "Zulu time" aka UTC. When you really think deeply and throw away the "that's impossible" prejudices about time zones - there is really nothing that we would lose by throwing away them completely and saving lots of confusion, unnecessary dealing with them, unnecessary handling of errors with them, etc.. There is only one thing that would be very difficult to adjust ourselves to: New Year would have to start in full sun in some places...

Those things happen. Slightly less often on OS X because they added some constraints on resizing triggers. But all the annoying beauty of this brain-dead idea is there: distracting pointer/cursor changes, unintentional resizes when something completely different was meant. Lost workflow focus, lost time re-sizing the window back to what it was supposed to remain.. And what's worst is that this s**t can't be turned off properly. True, one can edit the plist with either editor or "defaults" command but turning it off this way introduces rendering errors in many windows. Especially there, where the resize gadget is supposed to be placed.

The last uphill version was 10.5. This current 10.9 is in big part back-pedalling the visuals of 10.7/8 without removing the functional crap they introduced. I decided not to go beyond 10.6 the moment I saw "Edge Resize" in 10.7 :-(( So... no, thanks - even being free (as beer) doesn't make it more appealing..

My fucks are always beautiful. Or at least pretty (when I am more desperate).

I rarely condone use of f-words but this is the case when I couldn't say it any better...

"Human males and females have a strong tendency to live together in monogamous pairs"

As much as they have a strong tendency towards not being able to afford harems.

Is this because of him that the latest MacOS versions got "blessed" with the annoying, workflow interrupting feature called "EdgeResize" in all windows? ;-)

"Is this the beginning of the end for Android?"

No, and by far no... What a stupid question...