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Should we have one time zone for the world ?

In short, bad idea.

Extra thought: where is the time zone measured from initially? Greenwich? Which favours the Brits? Is that fair? (Actually none of it is fair).
 
None of it is fair. Although, with the exception of the change of one day to the next, the only thing that's supposed to change is the numbers you use for time. So it's important not to overstate the costs.

On the other hand, there are next to no benefits, so those accurately stated costs are sufficient to outweigh the benefits.
 
Hell, while we're at it let's just change to a 26 hour day so Bajorans can celebrate with us.
If we're going to start monkeying with the clock, a ten-hour day is more logical.

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Daylight Savings Time is a bad enough idea. This would be worse.
It's Daylight Saving Time, not "savings." Common mistake.

I like DST. What have you got against it?


Extra thought: where is the time zone measured from initially? Greenwich? Which favours the Brits? Is that fair? (Actually none of it is fair).
When Greenwich Mean Time was adopted as an international time standard, Britain ruled one-fifth of the world. The empire is long gone, but the zero meridian has to be somewhere. I don't see anything wrong with keeping it in England.
 
But that will go against Americab business interests. Or something. The there would be acampaign to move it to NY.
 
I like the 26-hour system better than Metric time. I need more hours in the day, not less. :rommie:

Changing to one time zone is a bad idea, but modifying DST would be a good idea. Since more and more clocks are now synchronized online, local time could be migrated fractionally every day and we could do away with the spring-ahead-fall-back nonsense.

But the best idea of all would be to switch to an eight-day week. That way we could have a four-day work week and a four-day weekend. :D
 
I like the 26-hour system better than Metric time. I need more hours in the day, not less. :rommie:

Changing to one time zone is a bad idea, but modifying DST would be a good idea. Since more and more clocks are now synchronized online, local time could be migrated fractionally every day and we could do away with the spring-ahead-fall-back nonsense.

But the best idea of all would be to switch to an eight-day week. That way we could have a four-day work week and a four-day weekend. :D

What's a weekend? :p

In short, bad idea.

Extra thought: where is the time zone measured from initially? Greenwich? Which favours the Brits? Is that fair? (Actually none of it is fair).

Well that's only since around 1884 when it was adopted as the Primer Meridian and the International Meridian conference in Washington D.C. Part of the reasons was Britain was the largest shipping nation in the world at that time at the Greenwich Observatory had been producing high quality data for some time.
 
The problem isn't DST itself, it's the process of changing back and forth. Some of us have trouble adjusting -- it feels like having jet lag twice a year without going anyplace.
No. The problem is DST. It's pointless and totally antiquated.
My bar closes at 3am. DST means that one night out of the year I get off work an hour early when 2am magically becomes 3am. It's the best night ever. I vote we keep it.

Of course, the flip side of that is that one night out of the year I get stuck at work an hour longer when 2am magically reverts back to 1am. But that's an extra hour of Saturday night income, so I like that, too.
 
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Instead of eliminating time zones, I think we should standardize pizza. And by that I don't mean one style of crust or one type of topping, but making pizza the standard meal on menus worldwide. Every restaurant would be a pizza restaurant. Everywhere around the world. Open 24/7, free delivery. With a 30 minute guarantee.

That, my friends, is what I call world peace. :guffaw:
 
I wouldn't say every restaurant needs to have pizza, but all restaurants that do have pizza should be legally obligated to deliver 24 hours a day.
 
Besides, people usually drink, celebrate new years, and go to bed. Are they really going to do that at 3:00 in the afternoon? That's not New Years, it's Homecoming.

Celebrating new year at 1500 hrs does sound strange but imagine folks all over the world celebrating together at the same time. That will be great.

As for businesses, the extra holiday may not hurt them. People do work during holidays especially if your business experiences huge volume of customers during the holidays, like especially shops and bars.

And I'm a bartender! It would completely throw off my whole business if New Year's suddenly happened in the morning or afternoon.

People do drink during the daytime.

I'll drink to that...and I am!


Daylight Savings Time is a bad enough idea. This would be worse.

No to a single time zone, but yes to getting rid of DST. Despite it, I went to school while it was still dark at some times of the year.
 
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