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I don’t even think we need time zones. India and China do not observes DST or time zones and they aren’t having any problems waking up, going to work, or living
by austincheney 6y ago
I don’t even think we need time zones. India and China do not observes DST or time zones and they aren’t having any problems waking up, going to work, or living due to the hour on their clocks.
- danans 6y agoThe majority of the population of those countries is distributed on a north-south axis. China's population is primarily on its eastern plains, not the western mountainous regions. India has one time zone, but it's still covers more degrees of latitude than longitude, so the difference in sunrise time between Kolkata in the east and Bombay in the west is about an hour. This is about the same as the difference in sunrise time between Boston and Kalamazoo, also both in the same timezone.
- pseudalopex 6y agoSome people in India think it's a problem.[1] Some people in western China unofficially use the same time zone as neighboring countries.[2] [1] https://qz.com/india/1542969/indias-single-time-zone-may-effect-education-and-poverty/ https://qz.com/india/1542969/indias-single-time-zone-may-eff... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Time
- austincheney 6y agoLooking at the article the Xinjiang Time looks more political than functional with the result being confusion and nonsense. Political divisions are the only practical reason why people maintain time zones. There are people through out the world who do just fine living on UTC or Zulu time.