Should time zones be abolished?
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1Luis Perez Nov 07, 2012
Daylight savings time is a useless practice of the past
Originally implemented during WWI, daylight savings time was created to help businesses that operated during the day. I see no need to continue to have DST now that the sunlight does not reduce the ability of businesses to conduct business.
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1Tony Magrogan Nov 10, 2012
This argument does not answer the question. The question is whether we need time zones, not whether we need to adjust local time zones.
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0Fernando Aguerrevere Nov 08, 2012
You can change your own operating hours
It's 19:36 in Venezuela, why can't it be 19:36 in Australia. Who cares? We know that it's the same instant in both countries!
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1Tony Magrogan Nov 10, 2012
19:36 of what day? We'd know what day it is in London (GMT), but what day do you call it in Venezuela or Australia? When an Australian wakes up, does he wake up to a day called "Tuesday-Wednesday"?
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0Alan Hinton Nov 08, 2012
Communities can still align their activities with normal daylight hours. I don't see how this is a point against abolition of timezones. Your schedule would be the same, just the clock would display something different.
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1Tony Magrogan Nov 10, 2012
Abolishing time zones complicates understanding of local circumstances
Local time zones are an (imperfect) approximation of how the sun goes up and down each day. Understanding daily solar rhythms is essential for commerce and for facilitating human interaction. Examples:
Business travelers need to know whether, when they land, they need to go to the office right away. Having a local time zone helps the traveler to set expectations before takeoff.
People scheduling international calls need to know whether to expect others to be awake, or in the office. Looking up local time zones help set those expectations.
Even the military, which does communicate in GMT, still uses local time to interact based on daylight.
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0Juan Benegas Lynch Feb 20, 2013
too costly / difficult to implement
same thing happens with measurement units in the us.
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- Reply added by Tony Magrogan on Sat Nov 10, 2012
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- Discussion started by Alan Hinton on Nov 07, 2012
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Daylight savings time is a useless practice of the past
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You can change your own operating hours
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Abolishing time zones complicates understanding of local circumstances
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too costly / difficult to implement
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Timezones align, however roughly, with circadian rhythms essential to good health
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