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<blockquote data-quote="08mojo" data-source="post: 15849903" data-attributes="member: 132915"><p>What events have you seen? Converting time zones is stupid easy... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again, you have a solution looking for a problem. The system currently in place is not confusing, at all. It involves knowing your location and a simple addition or subtraction. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The time of day follows the sun. That is what makes it easy to understand. It's dark at midnight everywhere on the globe and it's daylight at noon everywhere on the globe.</p><p></p><p>As you say: the numbers on the clock are arbitrary. So why would it make more sense to have it be dark at 1200 noon some places and daylight in others? Why would it make sense for the normal work day to start at 0800 on the east coast and 1100 on the west coast?</p><p></p><p>You'd have to memorize (or look up) the daylight hours for everywhere across the globe. To me, that is way more confusing than the current system.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again, what things are being mixed up due to simple time conversion mistakes? It's not very hard to say we are meeting at 1:00pm EST. I could see the desire for everyone to got to a 24-hour clock format, that would at least clear up the confusion between AM and PM. If it's important military actions you are referring to, there is already a global time in place for that and everything else you mentioned...</p><p></p><p>Zulu time is global time--it's the same for everyone and does not follow DST. The people that need to work off global time use Zulu time. The solution is already there for those who cannot convert time zones or need to eliminate the possibility time zone confusion.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Time zones are not silly. Time zones are based on the universe--they follow the sun. What would be silly is for man to base time on something completely arbitrary, which is what you are proposing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="08mojo, post: 15849903, member: 132915"] What events have you seen? Converting time zones is stupid easy... Again, you have a solution looking for a problem. The system currently in place is not confusing, at all. It involves knowing your location and a simple addition or subtraction. The time of day follows the sun. That is what makes it easy to understand. It's dark at midnight everywhere on the globe and it's daylight at noon everywhere on the globe. As you say: the numbers on the clock are arbitrary. So why would it make more sense to have it be dark at 1200 noon some places and daylight in others? Why would it make sense for the normal work day to start at 0800 on the east coast and 1100 on the west coast? You'd have to memorize (or look up) the daylight hours for everywhere across the globe. To me, that is way more confusing than the current system. Again, what things are being mixed up due to simple time conversion mistakes? It's not very hard to say we are meeting at 1:00pm EST. I could see the desire for everyone to got to a 24-hour clock format, that would at least clear up the confusion between AM and PM. If it's important military actions you are referring to, there is already a global time in place for that and everything else you mentioned... Zulu time is global time--it's the same for everyone and does not follow DST. The people that need to work off global time use Zulu time. The solution is already there for those who cannot convert time zones or need to eliminate the possibility time zone confusion. Time zones are not silly. Time zones are based on the universe--they follow the sun. What would be silly is for man to base time on something completely arbitrary, which is what you are proposing. [/QUOTE]
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