* Whether your local time should change twice a year
* If the answer is "no", whether your local time should be equivalent to the current DST or standard time (aka "summer" vs "winter" time)
* Whether we should be using time zones at all
Please know which question you're ranting about before you actually rant, thanks. Lots of orthogonality here.
"So You Want To Abolish Time Zones"
> Oh, where did you think it was going to be? Somewhere convenient for you?
> One of the stronger reasons for adopting a new time zone is to more easily do business with a neighbouring territory which already uses that time zone. China, a gigantic country spanning some sixty degrees of longitude (and therefore, nominally, four whole "hours") has been unified on a single time zone since 1949. And it was already the largest single time zone in the world by population.
> So, this phenomenon has now spread globally. Everybody wants to do business with China and her allies - everybody is China's ally. Everybody is on China Standard Time, UTC+08:00.
The problem is also not as hard as he implies. Instead of looking up the time there in google, you look up a day/night diagram instead.
* Don't Care
* Uh... maybe? There is some merit in having a localized indicator of approximately where in a given day cycle a particular location is, E.G. if I call someone on the other side of the planet knowing they're local time gives me some idea of how much I will or won't be annoying them. On the other hand, UTC is massively useful and the fact that we have almost no awareness of it in our daily lives is kind of problematic as well.