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.
What if we decided to mark all clothing as being sized “Small?.
I meant Langley not Goddard.
The US military uses Zulu time.
Up an hour. Back an hour. Just move the clock 30 minutes and split the difference.
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Solve the International Date Line for me please.
“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. “
There would be no international date line. The day would change for everyone at the same instant.
I think we should convert to metric time
GMT is now a time zone.
bump
I don't give a sou for that opinion.
Regards,
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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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.
Leave time zones alone, it’s not broken.
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...
The military has used “Zulu Time” for a long time now. It tends to coordinate things very nicely.
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