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At least two people do: one's an economics professor, the other is a physics professor. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/universal-time-zones https://www.wired.
by shadowofneptune 6y ago
At least two people do: one's an economics professor, the other is a physics professor.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/universal-time-zones https://www.wired.co.uk/article/universal-time-zones
Reasoning is pretty shaky tbh. If the idea is to give everyone a time that is suited for them, the most likely thing would be for everyone to revert back to using the mean solar time for their precise location, not to all converge on one time zone.
- remram 6y agoYeah, this would make it hard to communicate with people, if even your next-door neighbor doesn't use quite the same clock you do. Timezones are a trade-off between using your exact mean solar time and a common clock: adding/substracting whole hours is not too difficult, and you're never more than 30min from your mean solar time (that is, unless you get forced in the wrong timezone, like in China where they traded one for the other).