Should we have one time zone for the world ?
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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.
On the other hand, there are next to no benefits, so those accurately stated costs are sufficient to outweigh the benefits.
If we're going to start monkeying with the clock, a ten-hour day is more logical.
It's Daylight Saving Time, not "savings." Common mistake.
I like DST. What have you got against it?
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.
Using base-12 arithmetic makes perfect sense -- if you happen to have two extra fingers.
<in before someone mentions Swatch Internet Time>
I'm sure someone will mention it, it's just a matter of .beats.
I'm sure someone will mention it, it's just a matter of .beats.
I like the 26-hour system better than Metric time. I need more hours in the day, not less. 
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.
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.
Using base-12 arithmetic makes perfect sense -- if you happen to have two extra fingers.
IIRC, they address how one would handle counting with your fingers.
Indeed. This may actually be the only idea even more utterly stupid and pointless than so-called daylight "saving" time.
I like the 26-hour system better than Metric time. I need more hours in the day, not less.
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.
What's a weekend?
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.
That, my friends, is what I call world peace.
RoJoHen, your money and time both balance out over the year! 
I'll drink to that...and I am!
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.
RoJoHen, your money and time both balance out over the year!
They do, but that one night when I get off work early...it's like a fairytale.
