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Re:Map of Proposed US Time Zone Changes by 13of40 on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @09:47AM (#19849243)
Obviously what we need is no time zones and one standard time around the globe where:

1 second = 1 second

100 seconds = 1 minute

100 minutes = 1 hour

10 hours = 1 day

100 days = 1 year

...and ignore that light in the sky. Only farmers need to know about that light.

Re:Map of Proposed US Time Zone Changes by tsbinz on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @09:51AM (#19849279)
Swatch tried to do something like that in '98:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

Instead of hours and minutes, the mean solar day is divided into 1000 parts called ".beats". Each .beat is equal to one decimal minute in the French Revolutionary decimal time system and lasts 1 minute and 26.4 seconds (86.4 seconds) in standard time. Times are notated as a 3-digit number out of 1000 after midnight. So, @248 would indicate a time 248 .beats after midnight representing 248/1000 of a day, just over 5 hours and 57 minutes.

There are no time zones in Swatch Internet Time; instead, the new time scale of Biel Meantime (BMT) is used, based on Swatch's headquarters in Biel, Switzerland and equivalent to Central European Time, West Africa Time, and UTC+01. Unlike civil time in Switzerland and many other countries, Swatch Internet Time does not observe daylight saving time.

Re:Map of Proposed US Time Zone Changes by jhbadger on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @10:24AM (#19849662)
The French Revolutionaries had that. Well, they did acknowledge the primacy of the physical day and year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time

Re:Map of Proposed US Time Zone Changes by seeker61 on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @11:32AM (#19850451)
There's two lights, Mr. (or Ms.) Smart-Aleck! !! !!!