With timezones, there's two pieces of information that one needs to be aware of: the given time, and the offset from your local time. Without timezones, the on

With timezones, there's two pieces of information that one needs to be aware of: the given time, and the offset from your local time. Without timezones, the only information needed is the given time. Each party knows their local context, so everyone just deals with the absolute times. The latter is only problematic if you're “cold calling”, a situation which in reality would probably not be that big of an issue (you might know that your colleagues in LA are likely to be out for lunch at around 7500 beats just as you might know they're out around 12 local time which is N your time). … The swatch time is neat; I at some point also made a quick http://decimalti.me http://decimalti.me (the difference is that it's 0'd on UTC and it's divided into 100 000 units, rather than the 1000 beats).