> So the problem is not the single time zone, the problem stems from having two time zones for (somewhat understandable, but still inconvenient) political reasons.
So once again ask yourself, why do two timezones exist when there is already one official one that everybody should use?
Timezones won't go away just because governments will it and then it becomes even more of a mess.
So? The only examples the article gives are "sometimes it's light at midnight" and "sometimes the sun doesn't come up until 10am", both of which are absolutely normal for lots of people living in, say, not-entirely-southern Scandinavia.
> and there is a kind of unofficial 'xinjiang time' that you have to convert to and from in your head
So the problem is not the single time zone, the problem stems from having two time zones for (somewhat understandable, but still inconvenient) political reasons.