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Part of me wishes we didn't have timezones at all. Like normalizing the idea that some places have mornings at 22:00 and others have it at 07:00. Would definitely make my life easier not dealing with timezones anymore.
EDIT: I want to be clear, this is me pining for a world where any date or time is aligned without the need for conversion. It's impractical, skips the caveats that timezones help fix, and it's not really how we, as humans, think of or experience time in a day. Some of y'all really jumped on this, but it's not a serious suggestion. I do really appreciate the thought experiment and interesting discussion of it though!
So, how do you schedule with multiple parties in multiple regions when everyone has their own time? Do we go back to the horse and buggy where if you called the town over at 5pm and they are 6pm but the are 20km away?
Whats the work around here?
Right now, everyone does have their own time. In the current system, if someone in Boston, at 3pm, were to call up someone in Seattle and ask what time it is, the person in Seattle would say noon.
OP is proposing a single time zone for the whole world. So when it's 15:00 in Boston, it's also 15:00 in Seattle and even 15:00 in Tokyo. It would make sense logically, but from a daily life perspective, it'd be pretty terrible - noon would no longer mean the sun is directly overhead, except for one small part of the world.
It would definitely remove the concept of noon being around when the sun is at its zenith in the sky. I think we kind of have a shared idea of what a waking day is, so from that perspective this change is a terrible idea.
I actually think it would be kinda cool in a way to have people have different relationships with what "time" or "day" it is. I'm looking at it very optimistically when I say that though.
So OP is trying to start a fight. Who gets noon overhead? Because your gonna get shooting wars over that, or you're go na spend the rest of your life in the dark because corporate is on the otherside.of the planet and 0800 is start time.
I'm sorry I'm trying to start a fight? How did you interpret my comment that way?
Why would it be terrible if noon is not when the sun is directly overhead? It's not like there's some natural law telling us that it must be 12 o'clock. So what convenience does it provide?
0 might as well be when you wake up and start your day, so you actually sleep during the end of your day, instead of a bit at the end and a bit at the start.