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It's certainly an interesting notion in theory, though I believe in practice it isn't all that likely either. Before the railways every city and/or county just

It's certainly an interesting notion in theory, though I believe in practice it isn't all that likely either. Before the railways every city and/or county just about was its own time zone and a lot of the historical records are in major computer timezone databases if you feel like exploring them. It's fascinating. (Including sometimes minute and second offsets from UTC; things that programmers sometimes wrongly assume aren't possible with UTC offsets.) I think it also should also be somewhat obvious pretty quickly that it is a communication nightmare for any company with a presence in multiple cities or any person travelling between cities. I also think "Swatch beats" made it seem pretty obvious to me that no one actually wants to standardize only on a single timezone with no offsets either.

WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
> no one actually wants to standardize only on a single timezone with no offsets either. You're right. Also no one wants 28 day months either.
- WorldMaker 5y ago
  At risk of going way off topic, this reminds of the weird debates I've had with people about post-COVID calendars and how all the days kind of seem the same and all the months just weird. I've got friends that got deep into the "What day in March 2020 is this again?" "fandom" (https://whatdayofmarch2020.com/ https://whatdayofmarch2020.com/) My own ridiculous reaction was trying to use the French Revolutionary Calendar with the English month names (either the joke ones or the more serious proposal depending on my mood): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar It's really hard to use a different calendar, even as a joke. Obviously this effort was not helped that though there is plenty of software calendars that can convert to/from the French Revolutionary Calendar quite obviously none of them were English localized (in either the witty or the serious names), and it isn't really worth the time to do that, especially just as a joke. (Today is 21 Sneezy or 21 Fogarious, if you were curious.)

WarOnPrivacy 5y ago

> no one actually wants to standardize only on a single timezone with no offsets either. You're right. Also no one wants 28 day months either.

WorldMaker 5y ago
At risk of going way off topic, this reminds of the weird debates I've had with people about post-COVID calendars and how all the days kind of seem the same and all the months just weird. I've got friends that got deep into the "What day in March 2020 is this again?" "fandom" (https://whatdayofmarch2020.com/ https://whatdayofmarch2020.com/) My own ridiculous reaction was trying to use the French Revolutionary Calendar with the English month names (either the joke ones or the more serious proposal depending on my mood): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar It's really hard to use a different calendar, even as a joke. Obviously this effort was not helped that though there is plenty of software calendars that can convert to/from the French Revolutionary Calendar quite obviously none of them were English localized (in either the witty or the serious names), and it isn't really worth the time to do that, especially just as a joke. (Today is 21 Sneezy or 21 Fogarious, if you were curious.)