Posted on 11/05/2017 4:44:06 AM PST by wintertime
Actually, it’s 8.5.....but you get a 1/2 lunch.
People who live where time zones meet have no problem dealing with time. You can set time to whatever you want it to be that is convienent for you. I leave my clocks set to the same time year-round and never have a problem.
>> traveling to a new time zone, is an opportunity for mistakes and even deadly errors.
How so? Examples please.
If we didn’t use time zones, then would we work according to the clock or according to the sun? If we did work according to the sun, then would work schedules shift by a couple minutes each day? Or would people (on the east cost, for example) just wake up at 10 in the morning and drive to work at noon?
Time zones make sense. Setting the clocks forward and backwards by an hour for reasons that no longer exist is truly stupid.
If having a single time zone for all of China were a problem, or an inconvenience, it would be in the news.
If I remember correctly at one time all time was local. However after Railroads became the prime mode of transportation problems developed.
The original time zones were created to prevent errors. They are not perfect (especially if you live near the point the time changes) but it is reasonable to have define zones.
That’s the reason for Zulu time.
Indeed! :)
Good point!
Because people would get up at whatever hour-that-is-on-the-clock that is necessary for them to get up at dawn. The foolishness of changing the clocks would be gone, but we would still have the foolishness of having to remember what time they go to work in Chicago/New York/Denver/Los Angeles.
Businesses would open at 6am in one time zone, 7 in another, 8, and 9 in others. Same for schools. People would get up at 4 Am in one zone, 7 in another. Same foolishness, different name.
Forget about teaching the public about “GMT” (UTC!). The public can barely handle one time, let alone two. Airline pilots, weather people and ham radio operators know and use UTC. Everyone else, not a chance.
I have seen magazine articles written about this very same subject almost fifty years ago. So far, no change.
>>I guess the point is that everyone would eventually adjust. “Time” is a man made concept.
Time is very real. Units of measuring time are man-made. One of the basic tenets of Humanism is that time is not real and is man-made. But even the universe is a slave to time. It was created (even if created by random chance in the Big Bang), and will live a finite life and then will end. It is moving in linear time.
>>Whether you work for 7-330 or noon to 8:30 really doesn’t matter. It’s still eight hours.
Why must it be 8 hours if time doesn’t matter? If you don’t work for a fixed period of man-made time units, then would you get paid that way? No.
So, this is really about creating an economy of piecework workers, an economy of temp workers.
Yes,....Noon would still be noon. The sun would still be at its highest at noon. The number attached to it would be determined by Greenwich Mean Time.
But....Businesses now could easily switch to Greenwich Mean Time for many tasks that require communication over time zones. Business person in New York setting up a conference call in Tokyo could simply arrange for it to be at “X” ( GMT)
GMT could possibly increase safety in some endeavors such as transportation, especially flying.
Well, for one thing it would destroy the meaning of “five o’clock shadow”.
Daylight Saving Time probably has not yet cause “deadly” errors but it sure causes a lot of deaths: trafic accidents rate surges at each change that shortens sleep time by 1 hour.
My old parents always have horrible time coping with it, it’s a misery for them for weeks, twice a year. Just for it, I hate my guts DST, one of the stupidest idea invented by bureaucrats and the Malthusian peak-oil ideologues. It’s as if the unique and real purpose is sadistic: to butthurt people.
But DST is not the same thing as timezone, which is useful.
Your proposal is white supremacist.
What you want is for the world to be on Monrovia Mean Time.
Good point.
On another thread a poster complained about missed conference calls due to trying to figure out the time zone and whether or not that country observed Daylight Savings Time. I think the solution is simple in this case. Simply mutually agree to a international conference call set to Greenwich Mean Time. This is a completely voluntary agreement between two individuals and requires no government directive whatsoever.
Sitting here laughing! Very good! :)
>>But....Businesses now could easily switch to Greenwich Mean Time for many tasks that require communication over time zones. Business person in New York setting up a conference call in Tokyo could simply arrange for it to be at “X” ( GMT)
When I have a conference call with Japan, the numbers on the clock aren’t the problem. The fact that we are a half a world apart is the problem and one of us is trying to wake up and one of us is trying to settle down after dinner.
>>GMT could possibly increase safety in some endeavors such as transportation, especially flying.
The actual flying is already handled in Zulu time. The ticketing is on local time.
Miltary communicatons (ham radio shacks etc...) all coordinate comms using GMT.
They are always quick to credit ‘socialism’ for roads but never The Wrights, Goddard, et al for commercial air travel.
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