Spot on. The author speaks of "the messy affair" of changing to have 4 different times in the US, seemingly oblivious to the fact that we were changing away fr

Spot on. The author speaks of "the messy affair" of changing to have 4 different times in the US, seemingly oblivious to the fact that we were changing away from having a unique time in every town. It is beyond me how having 4 time zones is supposed to be messier than that. He describes his 1883 newspaper quote as an example of how difficult and unpopular the change was, but I read it as describing how simple it was becoming to know what time it was in another city (except Chicago). Simply put, the author's fantasy of eliminating time zones is ignorant of history, and silly and unworkable for reasons many other commenters have already covered. I wouldn't mind losing DST, though.