Swatch Internet Time and UTC solve the same problem: they both present a timezone- and locale-agnostic, almost-monotonous scale that's two-ways convertible with

Swatch Internet Time and UTC solve the same problem: they both present a timezone- and locale-agnostic, almost-monotonous scale that's two-ways convertible with local times. Except UTC is more natural to reason about, because it looks like a local timestamp, and some people can do offset math in their head to approximate the real answer. You have to do much more conversions between Swatch Internet Time and local time, so you always need a tool. The applicability of timestamp conventions for setting business meetings is largely dependent on how easily one can look up the same moment across multiple IANA timezones [1]. For example, looking up how typical local working hours cascade between different timezones [2]. If multi-converters like this became mainstream, Swatch Internet Time may very well have been a hit. But it wasn't, and such a tool, even for UTC, remains hard to find. [1] https://www.iana.org/time-zones https://www.iana.org/time-zones [2] https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=20180206&p1=179&p2=240&p3=102 https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=...