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What if the entire world were on Greenwich Mean Time? End all time zones?
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| 11/5/2017
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Posted on 11/05/2017 4:44:06 AM PST by wintertime
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To: wintertime
What if we decided to mark all clothing as being sized “Small?.
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posted on
11/05/2017 5:28:44 AM PST
by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: relictele
I meant Langley not Goddard.
To: wintertime
There is no such thing as "GMT." Hasn't been since 1928. Perhaps you mean Universal Time?
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posted on
11/05/2017 5:30:33 AM PST
by
sourcery
(Non Aquiesco: "I do not consent" (Latin))
To: wintertime
The US military uses Zulu time.
44
posted on
11/05/2017 5:32:20 AM PST
by
EEGator
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.")
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.")
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.)
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. “
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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....)
To: Don Corleone
There would be no international date line. The day would change for everyone at the same instant.
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posted on
11/05/2017 5:54:05 AM PST
by
wintertime
(Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
To: bgill
I think we should convert to metric time
To: sourcery
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....)
To: All
To: tbpiper
Well, for one thing it would destroy the meaning of five oclock shadow.I don't give a sou for that opinion.
Regards,
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posted on
11/05/2017 6:06:01 AM PST
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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.
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posted on
11/05/2017 6:06:35 AM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
To: Sirius Lee
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.
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posted on
11/05/2017 6:10:09 AM PST
by
wintertime
(Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
To: freedomlover
Leave time zones alone, it’s not broken.
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posted on
11/05/2017 6:10:29 AM PST
by
DaveA37
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...
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posted on
11/05/2017 6:12:15 AM PST
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: wintertime
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posted on
11/05/2017 6:12:31 AM PST
by
infool7
(Pray, Think, Pray, Act, Pray Pray Pray...)
To: CASchack
The military has used “Zulu Time” for a long time now. It tends to coordinate things very nicely.
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posted on
11/05/2017 6:14:40 AM PST
by
GingisK
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