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What if the entire world were on Greenwich Mean Time? End all time zones?
self | 11/5/2017 | self

Posted on 11/05/2017 4:44:06 AM PST by wintertime

Question:

What would happen if all time zones were abolished and the entire world set their clocks to Greenwich Mean Time?

I am pondering this because changing clock time, whether due to Daylight Savings Time or traveling to a new time zone, is an opportunity for mistakes and even deadly errors.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: dst; time
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To: wintertime

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


41 posted on 11/05/2017 5:28:44 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: relictele

I meant Langley not Goddard.


42 posted on 11/05/2017 5:29:56 AM PST by relictele
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To: wintertime
There is no such thing as "GMT." Hasn't been since 1928. Perhaps you mean Universal Time?
43 posted on 11/05/2017 5:30:33 AM PST by sourcery (Non Aquiesco: "I do not consent" (Latin))
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To: wintertime

The US military uses Zulu time.


44 posted on 11/05/2017 5:32:20 AM PST by EEGator
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To: wintertime

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


45 posted on 11/05/2017 5:39:05 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Sirius Lee

Peanut, peanut butter and jelly
Peanut, peanut butter and jelly
First you spread it, you spread it
Then you eat it, you eat it
Peanut, peanut butter and jelly!


46 posted on 11/05/2017 5:42:39 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: wintertime

Solve the International Date Line for me please.


47 posted on 11/05/2017 5:49:28 AM PST by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: wintertime

“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. “


48 posted on 11/05/2017 5:54:04 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Don Corleone

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


49 posted on 11/05/2017 5:54:05 AM PST by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: bgill

I think we should convert to metric time


50 posted on 11/05/2017 5:54:16 AM PST by freedomlover
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To: sourcery

GMT is now a time zone.


51 posted on 11/05/2017 5:54:55 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: All

bump


52 posted on 11/05/2017 6:03:01 AM PST by foreverfree
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To: tbpiper
Well, for one thing it would destroy the meaning of “five o’clock shadow”.

I don't give a sou for that opinion.

Regards,

53 posted on 11/05/2017 6:06:01 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Reno89519

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.


54 posted on 11/05/2017 6:06:35 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Sirius Lee
I prefer bologna time.

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55 posted on 11/05/2017 6:09:53 AM PST by foreverfree
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To: Louis Foxwell

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.


56 posted on 11/05/2017 6:10:09 AM PST by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: freedomlover

Leave time zones alone, it’s not broken.


57 posted on 11/05/2017 6:10:29 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: wintertime

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...


58 posted on 11/05/2017 6:12:15 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: wintertime
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?

59 posted on 11/05/2017 6:12:31 AM PST by infool7 (Pray, Think, Pray, Act, Pray Pray Pray...)
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To: CASchack

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


60 posted on 11/05/2017 6:14:40 AM PST by GingisK
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