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Swatch Internet Time sounds awful.

Your idea to go from intuitive measurements of time to abstract measurements sounds awful.

A single timezone for a 3,000 mile wide country sounds awful.

Single timezone for a large country works very well. It makes it much easier to arrange a phone call or meeting with someone on the other side of it (you still need to know what the difference is to know you're not asking them to be there before breakfast or after supper, but you never get the failure mode where you both think you've arranged a different time). And it can encourage businesses to be flexible about working hours, since mandating 9-5 in all their branches is obviously insane.

Admittedly, a single timezone for the world might be a bit far fetched. But there's nothing intuitive about 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in a hour, then all of a sudden 24 hours in a day, and roughly 4.3 weeks in a month or somewhere between 28 and 31 days in a month. The only numbers in our calendar that are vaguely intuitive is 3 months in a season and 265 days in a year, and even those have problems.

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