I was watching C-SPAN yesterday and there was an author presenting his book and, I forget the name of it, but it was about daylight savings and all the different time zones and everything and he stated the point that we all live on the same planet and that their should only be one time for it. Meaning that if it's 9 o'clock in Indiana then it's 9 o'clock in Australia. He also though that it should be a 24hr. clock. I must say that I absolutley agree with him, it's stupid for it to be Monday here and Tuesday in Japan. I was just wondering what everyone else's take is on this, especially you international's.
24hr. Clock
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Well I'm for that, I think everyone being on Indiana time would be hella convenient for me.mkillio said:
You do mean the bit of Indiana that's on daylight savings time and not the silly people down south, right? :|
Now that is just plain crazy talk, next thing you know they'll try and make us adopt the metric system.
I have always thought that daylight savings time was a stupid concept. I have never really been opposed to the 12hour clock or time zones, but with the global comunity coming around it wouldn't be a bad thing to ditch time zones and if we do that the whole AM/PM thing would have to go as well.
internet time was started by swatch but it didnt catch on.
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edit: link to internet time http://www.timeanddate.com/time/internettime.html
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edit: link to internet time http://www.timeanddate.com/time/internettime.html
DudeMiester
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did you notice that timeanddate.com does not have the time nor date on the main page?
Exactly. [edit] After adding the bold part. That's how I read it, and I think that's how you meant it. [/edit]ninelven said:
You can't change that there will be a different time of the day in different parts of the world (the world is round, you know). So there will be at least one inconvenience, whatever style you choose to give time. Either you need timezones, or you need to re-learn at what time things use to happen whenever you travel (or communicate with people in other parts of the world). So you'd still need some kind of timezones. But instead of saying how to convert timestamps between the zones, they would say at what time you use to go to work, when stores open, and so on.
Timezones (as we know them now) are BY FAR the smallest problem here.
But again, if you know where Zaire is on the globe in relation to where you are, you don't need to know what they consider the time to be there in order to know when it is close to dawn there. However, with a standardized time for the globe, If your friend happens to call when you are on your way to work and will be back shorty after 14 and he doesn't have to do any math to know when would be a good time to call back.
I call someone on the phone, they say its 9 (24h global time). How would i know exactly what regular (time system we currently use) time it was? 9 for this person might be midnight. Keep the current system, dont mess with a good thing.
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For me, living where I am, it's pretty much impossible to know that india is halfway around the globe compared to texas. You (wrongfully) assume everybody know exactly where every location is in relation to every other. That is NOT the case. How would you expect this system to work when there are so many americans that can't even pin down their own country on a map of the globe?kyleb said:
No, this is a plain dumb idea to solve a non-problem.
Oh by the way, you know what else we need to fix? This IRRITATING hemisphere problem! I'm sick and tired that it's high summer on christmas eve in south africa and australia and such places! Someone obviously has to do something about that, I suggest we make a new world standard that pegs winter to the northern hemisphere's climate cycle. It would probably be a little bit of a bother for the southern hemisphere to readjust, but overall I'm sure they would all agree this would be MUCH better. Finally all those classical christmas songs will make sense for them as well.
