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.
opportunity for mistakes and even deadly errors.
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That’s life. Lots of things offer opportunity for mistakes and even deadly errors.
Learn to cope.
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PS: For a week this past mid-September I was part of a 40-person bus group that rode from Delaware (I live in MD but had to catch the bus in DE) to Nashville and Memphis (Music Row, the Opry, Graceland and a few other things we saw). It was my first trip outside the Eastern Time Zone since I visted steprelatives in Nova Scotia in 1983. That's 34 years without having to change my watch for reasons of travel. That streak ended, but the world didn't. The point being, I can live with time zones even if others can't.
Go the other direction. Abolish that 1800s innovation of “Railroad Time”. Everyone could synchronize their clocks to their sundials at noon each day.
No, Mountain Standard time. Everyone else should change.
I’ll do you one better: International Fixed Calendar (A 13 month year, with 28 days each), 1 time zone starting at the International Date Line.
I don’t like the idea but do think the Entire Continental U.S. including Alaska should be on Central Standard Time. No daylight savings time either.
And the US Army hasn't won a war that it's gotten into since the adoption.
Coincidence? I think not.
Silly idea....what purpose would it serve?
That being said.... Get rid of DST...
Swatch tried this already.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
Honestly, I wonder if it would actually catch on now.
Just go to the Navy system of bells. It works great.
There would be no impact whatsover. The West coast would still be 3 hours behind the east coast, except instead of people on the west coas getting up at 6 am local time, we would get up at 9 am local time. Instead of working 9 to 5 we would work Noon to 8, eat dinner at 10, go to bed at 1 am and do it all again the next day.
In other words, we would still more or less be in sync with sunrise and sunset, just our clocks would reflect East Coast time rather than PDT. It would have no effect whatsoever. I would just take some getting used to when people from opposite coasts talked to each other, because their reference to time would be 3 hours out of Sync.
It wouldn’t change anything in our behavior, just the relative reference of time.
I don’t know how we would deal with the rollover to the new day. I mean, back east most people would be sleeping when Monday rolled to Tuesday. On the west coast, it you wrote checks around 9pm current time, which would be midnight if we all were on the same schedule, then the check you wrote at 8:59 now would be dated one day and the check you wrote at 9:01 current PDT would be dated the following day.
So West Coasters would generally be awake past “midnight” and would live our lives always over the course of 2 days. But I mean, in practical terms, it wouldn’t affect our behaviors or patterns. We would still be in sync with the solar movements.
From January to June, we keep moving the clocks +10 minutes. Then from July to December, we keep moving the clocks -10 minutes at a time.
This is my solution to the problem.
I guess there is no arguing that...
Sure why not...let’s have sunlight at midnight and darkness at noon....what a waste of pixels...
The idea was to allow people to set a meeting time using a time zone-less universal reference.
We bitch and moan about the time change twice a year.
Our elected official do nothing.
That tells me some K street Lobbyist is paying our reps to do nothing.
It is all about the money sheep.
Your sundial would be off.
It would only be in the news if it were a problem for the Chinese government. The peasants have no media voice.
Is it really that difficult for people to adjust the clocks twice a year. Jeez. Such idiocy.
Way back when...I forget when this DST thing started, but...we had analog clocks and watches.
It was quite a feat to make the rounds on Saturday night and change all the damn things before bedtime...and invariably miss one and then go to work Monday morning and do it all over again for all the clocks there.
Fast forward to now...I have one item in my entire house that does not correct itself for DST...my old (at least 80 years old) wind-up, 27-jewel Swiss-made wrist watch...which still maintains time almost to the second with my iphone clock...assuming I remember to wind it (the watch, not the iphone).
Everything else...even the refrigerator and stove, and the microwave, I think (have to check) magically, at 0201 hours on Sunday morning, changes to reflect the appropriate DST.
I even have a wrist watch that corrects itself...it was fairly inexpensive compared to the current collector value of my Swiss-made watch, it ain't "cool", in my opinion, but it reflects current technology and I don't have to wind it or even put a battery in.
I guess...all things considered...what's the big deal?
Unless of course, Mr. PotatoHead over there in NoKo decides to target the facility in Colorado that maintains the Atomic Clock broadcast thingy, wrongfully thinking it may present a threat to him, then I think we're all okay to just sit back and let the goobermint change all them clocks for us.
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