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Seems relevant: https://qntm.org/abolish

Humorous, but why is this person “calling” someone in 2026?

Anyway, China manages somehow. I obviously think keeping our time zones and moving them to standard time (noon ~= actual noon) would be best, I was just offering a farcical alternative that would be better than permanent DST.

I thought we wanted to prevent imposing unnatural time standards? "China manages somehow" seems nowhere close to that.

The point of the article is that timezones solve practical problems that will keep existing if you remove timezones - no matter if you do it globally or only in one large geographic region.

People have a use for a time grid that is relative to when they're awake, and the article I linked to goes into great detail why. Don't worry about telephones, people can still interact without them.

Yes, but if we’re going to impose an unnatural standard (year-round DST), which I do not prefer, let’s at least make it an interesting one. That’s been my point all along and I don’t know how to make that more clear. I’m demonstrating a preference for standard time and offering a tongue-in-cheek (though possibly slightly better somehow) alternative to universal DST, which would be horrible.

(For the curious, Chinese businesses just adjust their actual working hours locally, it’s not really an issue.)

Ok, understood. It seemed like you were proposing an alternative to permanent-DST that should be worse by your own logic (unnatural standard), but if it's tongue in cheek, then I'm much less confused.

Not really, as its a pretty shallow and trite article about abolishing ALL time zones around the world, not just within a country, totally different thing

Not entirely, if the country covers enough time zones, like China suggested above. 4 hours of difference is already half the working day, and a sizable chunk of daylight.

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