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Time zones are archaic. So many things would be simplified with a one world time.

• tempestn 11y ago
  Simpler isn't always better or easier. When traveling it's a lot easier to change your watch (or more likely, have your phone update automatically) than to re-calibrate your understanding of what times represent morning/lunch/bedtime/etc. Similarly when coordinating meetings or events across timezones, it's much easier to simply see that someone is 3 hours ahead of you than to try to guess roughly what they'll be up to at a given time of day based on their location, without the aid of time zones. Unless you're suggesting that everyone keep the same hours everywhere. In which case I'm all for it, as long as my side of the world gets to be the one awake in the daytime.
  • cosss 11y ago
    I am pretty sure everyone's office hours (to take it as an example) are still going to be fixed at, say, -4 hours back from their noon till +5 hours forward, so instead of saying "UTC+4" people are going to need to learn to say "my noon is at 16:13" (or "16:00" even, i'm pretty sure no one will want to live by any offset from the "global" noon other than those evenly divisible by 30 minutes). Probably abolishing timezones is much less of a profound change than it seems to be.
    • ghaff 11y ago
      So you're effectively substituting one form of synchronization for another that's already well established. After all, we already go to the trouble of using DST as a way to better synchronize within a timezone. (Which not everyone likes but I appreciate as a resident very far east in a timezone.)
• beedogs 11y ago
  We have that; it's called UTC.