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Why not abolish timezones AND switch to metric? Now that we live our lives on the information superhighway, surely it's inevitable that Swatch Internet Time will eventually become the standard:

https://www.swatch.com/en_gb/internet-time/

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So, you want to abolish timezones?

https://qntm.org/abolish

Pfft. A hotchpotch of theoretical arguments which is entirely dispelled by the simple fact that Swatch have actually done it.

Yeah, but barely anyone uses it. That doesn't really disprove the usability issues.

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