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This makes things way more complicated.
When are timezones relevant? When dealing with people far away, or when traveling for longer distances.
In the first case it is far more easier to remember that John is +3 ours from you and Julia is -2 hours, than to have to remember when John gets up and when Julia gets up, and when they go to sleep and so on. Remembering "about my shedule but +/-x" is far easier.
In terms of flights it might seem easier at first, however once you land and realize that 13:40 means the middle of the night and everything being closed, you will quickly wish differently. Imagine for every further away place you visit you have to learn how the UTC translates to local opening hours, instead of just rolling with local time.
Nah it's way easier to have 1. You don't have to constantly adjust. Countries that can get away with it have 1, notably China.
France, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain should be in a different time zone, but they went to German time (because of Nazis) for a fairly uniform continent.