If somebody works a non 9-5 job, which outside office work is extremely common, than if this person works 5am to 1pm PST is no different than them working 14 to 22 UTC (and I know folks working office jobs who basically work their company's business hours are more important than your local time). If you have to call a business, your local time zone often won't matter, so if I have to say to myself "oh, they're 3 hours ahead" versus "call between these UTC times" is the same thing.
I still don't find these arguments at all convincing. It doesn't need to be the only clock you are working with, you just need to use it as well for the convenience of everyone else. That being said, I do think that if you are doing anything internationally, including posting an event on the Internet, you should always, always say the time in either UTC or in reference to UTC. Let's say that in my time 9:00am is a good post lunch after noon time to schedule a meeting, but if for you it is lunch time or maybe you haven't woken yet, what does it help the fact it is "9:00am" for both of us? I still need to think of a time that is convenient for the both of us, so I still will need to know what is your time differential towards me Like, sure, over time people in a region will get used to the new frame of reference, but now it won't be universal anymore, so there will still be a break of communication and a necessity of conversion when scheduling things internationally. If every country in the world follows the exact same clock you be breaking with that representation and, ultimately, just exchange one problem for another. For most part, people don't schedule things based on the clock number alone, but mainly on the time of day that this number represents.
Time and clock are arbitrary but they are still based on something concrete. This would just happen all over the world making everything more confusing. Since most of the world doesn't really do much across timezones it would only be a negative for them, and a big one at that.Ĭurrently many people in western China are using an unofficial timezone as the official timezone is Beijing time which is about 3 hours off from what it should be in cities like Ürümqi. If you're across the world from Greenwich mean time your Monday suddenly becomes a Tuesday during lunch. What would be much worse is how days would work for the general population.
Sure, you know it's currently 3pm in Tokyo, but what does that even mean? Is it night? Morning? Office hours? Now I can just look up the time and know that if it's between 9am and 5pm it's probably a good time to call a business. You also still need to do time calculations when calling people across the world. This might more difficult as you constantly need to remember at what time that place wakes up and eats dinner instead of just changing your clock once. This might seem like a great idea at first, but if you think about it it would only make things worse.įirst off, you still need to adjust your internal clock when travelling somewhere. For those who are not technologically advanced enough to live on current local solar time, the current time zones could continue to work as they always have. That watch would always show the current local solar time. Watches could be made that have the solar data in them and just a GPS. You wouldn't necessarily have to have a mobile device. As I travel, my phone's time would always show the current local solar time.
Then I can decide whether it is okay to call them. And if I want to contact someone else, my phone could contact their phone without getting GPS information and just ask their phone what time it is, and it could give my phone their local solar time. My GPS and well-known solar charts can tell me how far before or after local solar noon it is right now for me. A large enough population has smart devices that most of us could switch to local solar time. There's an easy way to abolish time zones without having a single world time.
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