Re:Europe pushing for lunar time zone
by ElectricalUnion on Thursday March 02, 2023 @11:03AM
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If keeping most of Europe on one timezone lets people work together without needing to think about time zones, so does unifying the entire earth on a single TAI or UTC "timezone".
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No, that does not scale. Sunrise and sunset are at very similar times in CET countries, meaning they have similar business hours, and I can set up a meeting between Spain, Poland, and the UK (which is on UTC/BST, but that’s close enough) at 11:00 CET and everyone will be fine with it and well awake at that time. If we extended CET around the world, and wanted someone in New York to join our meeting, they would be furious because they would need to ~~wake up~~ (edit: be awake and at a computer) at 5:00 ex-EST, or 1.5 hours before sunrise.
Quick, someone tell China this won't work! China has only one official time zone, China Standard Time (CST) which is centered on Beijing,
which is on the east side of the country. Some how, the country still hasn't fallen apart since this was established in 1949. Prior to this, China had 5 time zones.
Do you have an example that is not from an oppressive regime that does not care about the happiness of its citizens? Do you have an example that does not have an unofficial time zone [0] observed by people in the easternmost part of the country?