2026-10-04 09:40 UTC
You have a global day and you have local euphemisms. “Evening” just becomes “the dark after lunch” instead of “the dark after noon.” That’s a trivial linguistic adjustment to make to ensure that the thing we actually care about syncing up for convenience is synched up for convenience.
Edit: we already have such euphemisms and ambiguities in English:
tomorrow: the day I wake up next
night: the dark before I sleep (saving “morning” generally for after you wake and not a strict time like 00:00)
next (as in “weekend”): 2 weekends from now
biweekly/bimonthly: once every other OR twice every
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@pycorax@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 13:34
Words have meaning because many people want to use them. I very much doubt people would adopt something like this within the same country much less worldwide. You could be right and that people might actually change but for something so drastic (and cultural even), I’m willing to bet few would bother.