I still hope that someday the whole world will run on UTC0 and there is no more time zones madness. I know the day will likely never come but I like to keep dreaming.
Some dates will change when at relatively strange times. For some, the date change will be two hours into the workday. That seems odd. And you lose some info too: if I want a 07:30 (am) meeting, is that during the working hours of my target location? With offsets, I can see that it is 12:30pm at my target location and know that I am scheduling over lunch very likely. With no timezones, how do I know what time of day it is there? Recall some anchor time and do mental math each time? "Morning in London is 13:00, so four hours later right before lunch is 17:00, and for an LA meeting, let's see, morning there is 05:00, so 17:00 is evening time, I think
> the date change will be two hours into the workday. That seems odd
Seconds minutes and hours can change but the day cannot?
> mental math each time
Usually meetings are setup using an app and shared calendars should actually help here, a person can have meeting slots and out of office time, that should provide the same info. logistically I don't see that much of a difference from the current situation
> Seconds minutes and hours can change but the day cannot?
The calendar day being aligned to the sleep/wake cycle and changing when most of the population is either asleep or at least might not terribly care about the actual date does help quite a bit.
> Usually meetings are setup using an app and shared calendars should actually help here, a person can have meeting slots and out of office time, that should provide the same info. logistically I don't see that much of a difference from the current situation
It'd also wreck any time references in any kinds of stories that aren't consumed locally. So every time I read/watch/listen to a story that isn't set where I live, I'd first have to look up the local time to make sense of any time references.
I'd rather timezones be split based on actual logic rather than politics and eliminate things like daylight savings. It's insane to me that China has one timezone because they felt like it. People must sleep terribly in certain regions.
Yep. And the logic can be made very easy. Outside polar regions or outer space, timezone could simply be the longitude/15 degrees rounded to a constant fraction. This is not perfect as cities maybe in 2 time zones but this basically a really good approximation.
