Timezones were useful to deal with a persistent paranormal bullshit I had in a daily basis.
When my superstitious dad and his equally superstitious friends started pushing on me the 3:00AM in every point of the planet being the "Devil's Hour", I got tired and I asked why the underworld respects timezones and which UTC/GMT offset they use.
They all went silent.
From a software dev standpoint not having timezones would be so nice
If we went to a universal time, I'm sure it would be a little weird. Wake up at 8pm? Go to bed at 12am? I'm sure I'd get used to it though, and the convenience of not having to figure out relative time zones with international releases all the time would be worth it
Yeah there's hardly any reason for not having time zones, adds a whole lot of ambiguity and weird shit in your day-to-day lives just so it's a bit more convenient to coordinate things in other parts of the world, which for most people isn't as important. The 9-5 stuff, the main argument put forward, doesn't actually have anything to do with timezones at all.
Time zones make sense in a relativistic sort of way based on your location on Earth.
Its literally just places like Australia, China and etc refusing to make any sense on their time scales. If we all just followed the longitude lines, things would be simple and clear.
If i'm honest, i'd prefer we keep Timezones, i can see why folks would want it to be slowly pushed aside for a universal sense of time but it feels more "right" to have the sun up around afternoon and not at like 23/11pm.
I don't know, you can say i'm too used to what we have now but i guess change like that feels a bit too drastic for me.
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