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If keeping most of Europe on one timezone lets people work together without needing to think about time zones, so does unifying the entire earth on a single TAI
by ElectricalUnion 4y ago
If keeping most of Europe on one timezone lets people work together without needing to think about time zones, so does unifying the entire earth on a single TAI or UTC "timezone".
- Kwpolska 4y agoNo, that does not scale. Sunrise and sunset are at very similar times in CET countries, meaning they have similar business hours, and I can set up a meeting between Spain, Poland, and the UK (which is on UTC/BST, but that’s close enough) at 11:00 CET and everyone will be fine with it and well awake at that time. If we extended CET around the world, and wanted someone in New York to join our meeting, they would be furious because they would need to ~~wake up~~ (edit: be awake and at a computer) at 5:00 ex-EST, or 1.5 hours before sunrise.
- zamnos 4y ago[flagged]
- Kwpolska 4y agoDo you have an example that is not from an oppressive regime that does not care about the happiness of its citizens? Do you have an example that does not have an unofficial time zone [0] observed by people in the easternmost part of the country? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Time