I’m with you for the alphabet and human era, but what’s the thing about timezones? We’d still have to keep track of each area’s normal waking/business hours, but it’d be less standardized and harder to remember unless there’s something I’m missing.
The time zone thing means if the time on your clock reads 00:00 hours, it’s 00:00 hours everywhere.
That means if I say I have a meeting at 14:00 with someone in China while I live in the USA, there’s no conversion. It’s 14:00 everywhere. Every clock reads the same. I know when to be on the call.
All it does is change what time people arbitrarily ‘Get up’, ‘Fall asleep’, ‘start school’ etc.
Say we arbitrarily say 00:00 is what ‘midnight’ would be in Britain at the Prime Meridian.
That means nothing really changes for Britain. But in Central Time USA, 00:00 means it’s when we’re just starting dinner.
No daylight savings times anywhere. Work places can set their own work times however they want. Nobody gets confused about having to convert time to different time zones for logistics which is the biggest benefit. If the ISS says it’ll be over New York City at 13:37, I’ll know exactly when to turn on my HAM radio.
I’d wake up at 13:00, get breakfast, be into work at 14:00. Get home at 22:00, etc.
There’d still be “timezones” where the divisions on what times everyone lives by are drawn, right? Like, in this state business hours are 14:00 to 22:00, and over at this other place it’s 00:00 to 08:00. For simplicity and commerce those boundaries would likely look very much like timezones…
You’ll still need to convert to the local time like we do now in order to know what part of the day that time is, but instead of doing that conversion once, you’ll then you do it for all sorts of things and keep track of all the different times everything is in that other place too. Currently, you can look up the time it is somewhere (or add/subtract a number of hours if you’re old-school) and when you see it’s 8am, you know it’s morning there. If there are no timezones, knowing it’s 8am doesn’t actually tell you anything anymore.
How so? Becky, I need you on that zoom call on Wednesday, 00:30 with our distributor Carlos in Mexico, the tax agent Amahle in South Africa, and our ship Captain who’s currently in Malaysia.
No confusion. Everyone knows what time they need to turn on the PC.
No conversions for PC times, no shipping time charts, none of it.
I’m with you for the alphabet and human era, but what’s the thing about timezones? We’d still have to keep track of each area’s normal waking/business hours, but it’d be less standardized and harder to remember unless there’s something I’m missing.
The time zone thing means if the time on your clock reads 00:00 hours, it’s 00:00 hours everywhere.
That means if I say I have a meeting at 14:00 with someone in China while I live in the USA, there’s no conversion. It’s 14:00 everywhere. Every clock reads the same. I know when to be on the call.
All it does is change what time people arbitrarily ‘Get up’, ‘Fall asleep’, ‘start school’ etc.
Say we arbitrarily say 00:00 is what ‘midnight’ would be in Britain at the Prime Meridian.
That means nothing really changes for Britain. But in Central Time USA, 00:00 means it’s when we’re just starting dinner.
No daylight savings times anywhere. Work places can set their own work times however they want. Nobody gets confused about having to convert time to different time zones for logistics which is the biggest benefit. If the ISS says it’ll be over New York City at 13:37, I’ll know exactly when to turn on my HAM radio.
I’d wake up at 13:00, get breakfast, be into work at 14:00. Get home at 22:00, etc.
There’d still be “timezones” where the divisions on what times everyone lives by are drawn, right? Like, in this state business hours are 14:00 to 22:00, and over at this other place it’s 00:00 to 08:00. For simplicity and commerce those boundaries would likely look very much like timezones…
You’ll still need to convert to the local time like we do now in order to know what part of the day that time is, but instead of doing that conversion once, you’ll then you do it for all sorts of things and keep track of all the different times everything is in that other place too. Currently, you can look up the time it is somewhere (or add/subtract a number of hours if you’re old-school) and when you see it’s 8am, you know it’s morning there. If there are no timezones, knowing it’s 8am doesn’t actually tell you anything anymore.
Plus a bunch of people would have the day turn over into the next day in the middle of the work day, which would be pretty inconvenient.
How so? Becky, I need you on that zoom call on Wednesday, 00:30 with our distributor Carlos in Mexico, the tax agent Amahle in South Africa, and our ship Captain who’s currently in Malaysia.
No confusion. Everyone knows what time they need to turn on the PC.
No conversions for PC times, no shipping time charts, none of it.
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I feel like if wednesday at 3pm is the same worldwide, Thursday never comes.