What if the entire world were on Greenwich Mean Time? End all time zones?

self | 11/5/2017 | self

[MrEdd]

What if we decided to mark all clothing as being sized “Small?.

[relictele]

I meant Langley not Goddard.

[sourcery]

There is no such thing as "GMT." Hasn't been since 1928. Perhaps you mean Universal Time?

[EEGator]

The US military uses Zulu time.

[bgill]

Up an hour. Back an hour. Just move the clock 30 minutes and split the difference.

[bgill]

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[Don Corleone]

Solve the International Date Line for me please.

[Paladin2]

“The difference between UTC and UT1 cannot exceed 0.9 s, so if high precision is not required, the general term Universal Time (without a suffix) may be used. “

[wintertime]

There would be no international date line. The day would change for everyone at the same instant.

[freedomlover]

I think we should convert to metric time

[Paladin2]

GMT is now a time zone.

[foreverfree]

bump

[alexander_busek]

Well, for one thing it would destroy the meaning of “five o’clock shadow”.

I don't give a sou for that opinion.

Regards,

[Louis Foxwell]

In very large metro areas it , perhaps, would mean little where life goes on 24/7. A common global clock would, however, be just as disconcerting as now to try to figure out what time it is where grandpa lives so as not to awaken him in the middle of the night. Imagine the confusion of an international conference of farmers discussing the time they milk their cows, or fishermen rising early in the morning at 12PM to catch the early worm. Time is, by its nature, confusing. There is no making it simple.

[foreverfree]

I prefer bologna time.

ff

[wintertime]

Very good point!

Either way leads to confusion. And....As some have pointed out, in critical areas such as flight there has already been a move to universal time.

[DaveA37]

Leave time zones alone, it’s not broken.

[trebb]

Like all things, it would take some getting used to and then not have much effect except that world-wide coordination of events would be simpler. When I was in the military we sometimes scheduled communications equipment/systems modifications to all occur at a certain GMT (ZULU Time) to reduce down time and allow better assessment of end results...

[infool7]

It's time for what is becoming my bi-annual plug for LNBT: What we need is Local Noon Based Time(LNBT) this time would be locally computer generated based on when high noon is at your physical local location. Your day would be exactly the hours between sunrise and sunset. Just like it used to be for centuries. Anything requiring a schedule or coordination, class times, work meetings, conferences would all use GMT. No confusing time zones to worry about.

We might need some new nomenclature for global coordintion but the old standards : morning, afternoon, evening and night should still suffice. Does anybody really KNOW what time it is?

[GingisK]

The military has used “Zulu Time” for a long time now. It tends to coordinate things very nicely.