> If you want to argue hard science, you'll have an uphill job of explaining to me why there should be 24 timezones and not 1440 of them. Why not just have the

> If you want to argue hard science, you'll have an uphill job of explaining to me why there should be 24 timezones and not 1440 of them. Why not just have the time be the current longitude where the sun is at the meridian? The whole world could use the same standard and eliminate a lot of confusion. We would have to use a unit other than degrees since that would make minutes and seconds (and weather conditions) confusing.