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Re:Time to move on? The case against daylight saving time by tempestn on Saturday November 02, 2013 @07:03AM (#6658838)
I expect if we were all going to convert to UTC anyway, we'd also convert to 24h time while we were at it.
Re:Time to move on? The case against daylight saving time by swombat on Saturday November 02, 2013 @08:51AM (#6659042)
So, redesign all the clock watch-faces to be 24h instead of 12h too?

And replace the wristwatch of everyone who doesn't have a digital watch? And wall clocks?

Re:Time to move on? The case against daylight saving time by zuppy on Saturday November 02, 2013 @11:56AM (#6659569)
Why redesign the watches? This problem doesn't exist in the places that use the 24h format (like most of the world around North America). We can use both time formats. I can either say 9 in the evening or 21 and everybody gets it.
Re:Time to move on? The case against daylight saving time by swombat on Saturday November 02, 2013 @03:18PM (#6660336)
Because "9 in the evening" doesn't mean much when you're a quarter of the world from GMT and forced to use GMT as your universal time.
Re:Time to move on? The case against daylight saving time by tempestn on Saturday November 02, 2013 @04:34PM (#6660675)
Well, when someone asks me what time it is now, I don't say, "The minute hand of my watch is pointing at the 1, and the hour hand slightly past the 3." Instead I translate it to "three-oh-five". Wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say 15:05 instead.

(My point being that many watches and clocks already don't give us the literal time as it's spoken, just a representation.)

Edit: although just to be clear, I don't actually think we should switch to a single time zone. It would cause all kinds of headaches. I just think if in some universe it were to happen, it would necessarily go along with a switch to 24h time.

Re:Time to move on? The case against daylight saving time by swombat on Saturday November 02, 2013 @07:17PM (#6661281)
You can say 15:05 because you know it's the afternoon and so 3:05 translates to 15:05. Now think through how that works when the whole world is on a single timezone.
Re:Time to move on? The case against daylight saving time by tempestn on Saturday November 02, 2013 @07:58PM (#6661420)
Yes, I agree that traveling would be hell with a single time zone regardless.