I don’t get the downvotes. They abolished timezones in China (around 1950?) and 5 geographical timezones are just going on Beijing time and have been for a while.
Although I’m not sure if they still use “local time”, idk, and then it kind of defeats the purpose…
Time zones are fine as they are. They are less confusing than having 23:00 be close to midnight in one place, early morning in another and noon in another place. It would also result in many places either changing the date at random times or having a different date in the morning and in the evening.
Maybe at some point we abandon timezones all together… One can only hope…
To be honest, that’s not the worst idea. It would have a ton of implications, but long term this would work fine.
So You Want To Abolish Time Zones
Fun read, I appreciate how much effort people put into saying nah uh, I don’t want/like change…
I will continue hoping quietly.
I don’t get the downvotes. They abolished timezones in China (around 1950?) and 5 geographical timezones are just going on Beijing time and have been for a while.
Although I’m not sure if they still use “local time”, idk, and then it kind of defeats the purpose…
You know the whole world isnt the USA, right?
How would that work?
Easy, everyone just uses UTC (or what ever) now.
It’s not a technical problem, but good luck convincing people around the world to adopt it.
Time zones are fine as they are. They are less confusing than having 23:00 be close to midnight in one place, early morning in another and noon in another place. It would also result in many places either changing the date at random times or having a different date in the morning and in the evening.
I never said they weren’t.