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Re:US time zones (1857) by cosss on Thursday July 02, 2015 @03:29PM (#9821049)
I am pretty sure everyone's office hours (to take it as an example) are still going to be fixed at, say, -4 hours back from their noon till +5 hours forward, so instead of saying "UTC+4" people are going to need to learn to say "my noon is at 16:13" (or "16:00" even, i'm pretty sure no one will want to live by any offset from the "global" noon other than those evenly divisible by 30 minutes). Probably abolishing timezones is much less of a profound change than it seems to be.
Re:US time zones (1857) by ghaff on Thursday July 02, 2015 @06:04PM (#9822031)
So you're effectively substituting one form of synchronization for another that's already well established. After all, we already go to the trouble of using DST as a way to better synchronize within a timezone. (Which not everyone likes but I appreciate as a resident very far east in a timezone.)