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Single time zone earth please
Single time zone earth please
If you want a fixed standard time, we already have UTC, - get used to it and the offset of the _local_ times you need to know.
Have you ever considered that people might be just assholes? :)
Also, just like you don't need to remember timezones today (you can just google them), you won't need to remember daylight hours (or whatever the terminology will end up being) in a single timezone future (because Google will know)!
Also, once you know the easy-to-remember-or-lookup offsets of the locations you interact with you can even translate in your head to save others the effort.
Yes! Why have a single, standard system known as timezones when each and every calendaring app can have their own "not a timezone" timezone mappings. That way Apple, Google and Microsoft can have three incompatible mappings between UTC and local time.... er.... accepted local customs. It will be great!
This is a weak argument for keeping timezones around imo.
Not only will all references to times in movies etc stop making sense. It will not even help to solve any of the perceived problems, like scheduling calls. You might be able to specify the time without a time zone, but you still have to look up if that time is within their daytime.
Literally the only people who would profit are those tasked with maintaining time-related functions in operating systems... who would lose their jobs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units
but only when the Gravitational constant is measured with more precision.
Kinda like how SI units are easier to reason about than imperal ones.
Nowadays, you could have that easily as an app on your smart watch, but of course, there are far fewer people wearing smart watches.
Also don't forget the egalitarian approach of using a time format that's equally foreign to everybody.