"While it may ultimately simplify our lives, the concept would require some big changes to the way we think about time. As the clocks would still be based around the Coordinated Universal Time (the successor to Greenwich Mean Time that runs through Southeast London) most people in the world would have to change the way they consider their schedules. In Washington, for example, that means we'd have to get used to rising around noon and eating dinner at 1 in the morning. (Okay, perhaps that's not that big a change for some people.
But in many other ways, Hanke and Henry argue, the new system would make communication, travel and trade across international borders far, far easier...
WV: Are there any drawbacks that you could see?
HH: Not really. Except that the tricky part of implementation is the setting up of hours-of-work around the world. This is where even China, with its single time, has not fully succeeded: there must be local regional “opening and closing” hours for government offices and for businesses. No one wants people having to work without the sun being up."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/02/12/the-radical-plan-to-destroy-time-zones-2/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=nextdraft
This would be interesting. Especially as it relates to the idea that people should have ownership over their own hours.
And thinking about a theoretical future in which we are colonizing planets, wouldn't all these things begin to feel deeply arbitrary when we're also dealing with people living in places with other rotation speeds and year and season-lengths?
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