Debalic wrote:
Holy crap that's infinitely horrible. Everybody's clock is going to be different. How would you conduct business between, say, the East Coast and the West Coast when you have to co-ordinate between two specific clocks instead of timezones?
Um... The same way you do it right now. Seriously. I schedule a meeting for 11AM PST and include people in New York, Berlin, and Singapore. What do you think happens? The meeting scheduler (say outlook) presents the meeting to each recipient and puts it on their calender for whatever time it happens to be where they are. No one really sits around calculating differences in time zones anymore.
This does mean that such things will not always happen on even hour differentials, but the benefits far outweigh that. And once people get used to not thinking in terms of one our differences, even that wont be an issue.
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This also assumes that *all* time-keeping devices are computerized and networked which, even though this is the 21st century, is nowhere near true (or even feasable) in first-world countries, let alone elsewhere.
Sure. That's the big caveat. However, we are rapidly getting there. And quite frankly, one can argue that anyone that doesn't have such clock technology probably doesn't have much need to time coordinate things with people at great distances from them anyway.
The whole reason we have one hour timezones is purely because up until very recently all clocks were set by hand by people. People need nice big round numbers. How many clocks do you use that aren't set via some automated computer process right now? I mean, I have a phone which sets itself automatically, including timezone changes. I have a couple cable boxes in my home which do the same. And I have a handful of computers I use, all of which set themselves automatically. So basically, the clock on my microwave and in my car would not be accurate. Um... Which they aren't usually anyway.
Then again, my coffee machine clock wouldn't adjust either. So I suppose for the "set my coffee to automatically brew itself" crowd, this might be a problem. Not sure how much of one, but there you have it.
Edited, Mar 13th 2014 7:09pm by gbaji