I think even if governments around the world abolished time zones, tried to ban their use and forced a universal time, you would still end up with folk implemen

I think even if governments around the world abolished time zones, tried to ban their use and forced a universal time, you would still end up with folk implementation of time zones that ends up being worse where people translate the universal time to and from the non-standard local time. You can see some of that behavior here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Time