Why time zones?

What purpose do they serve? It just makes everything more confusing. It's 3:00 here while it's 6:00 there and 12:00 there.

Why the fuck can't it be the same time everywhere? Why is it easier to have a kajillion time zones then to have some people get up at 8pm? It it really easier to split the world into timezones? I'll start the day at 2:30 in the morning if I have to. If the sun is out, it's day time. God damnit.

And why silent letters? When you say a word with a silent letter you just sort of pretend it's not there... so why even include it to begin with? they serve no purpose.

Silent letters are the truck-balls of words.

 

time zomes cofus the fuck outta me

 

It appears you guys have never been hunting wild game.. Where time zones are broken down in minutes across the state ..

 

If I'm not completely off; time zones were a sort of compromise between every clock on the planet being set individually to what time it seemed to be right there and by just having one time everywhere.

As it was, people had agreed they couldn't just say "It's 9am everywhere on the planet right now", but literally from town to town the clocks were off - and this played havoc on railroad scheduling and early communication.

Or I'm way off, who knows.

 

the 1st main use of the time zone idea came from the railroad industry back about 1850.
It is a useful tool to help people sync up cross the nation

 

They need time zones so they can promote the new world order where everyone gets up at 7am on the dot and watches the news at 10 every night.

 

Timezones were created so people around the world could have a standard of time to opertate on. Before them, we still had differing times, there was just no synchronization behind them.

The lack of understanding that this thread shows for the basic principals of the world we live on is astounding.

Before time zones were created, you had towns next to each other with different times, in other words instead of the couple of dozen time zones that we have now, there would be literally millions of different times.

 

It's mostly a way of keeping the time in line with the sun, which was the original intent. 12 noon is supposed to be when the sun reaches its peak, etc. This occurs at different times in different places, so it was split up into timezones to keep track of it. The alternative, as was said, would be that everyone would set their clocks by the sun, making time unpredictable between different areas.

 

I can't remember if the clocks turn the good or bad way this week

 

Spring forward
Fall back

 

Never heard of that - I'll try to remember it!

So the bad way.

 

I like it when the clocks go forward because you then get more light in the evening and it's not so dark all the time

 

Yeah that side of it is cool, but I hate losing an hour and having to get up earlier. Last year I had to be at work 6am - it's was hard man.

 

By the same token though, you gain an extra hour in the spring when there are much better things to do then in the fall, AND you have the light to do them in.

 

it would work if the world was not flat[schmuck]

 

Yeah, true. Back home it's light in the summer until 11pm, her it'll dark by 10pm at the latest.

Unless someone likes hanging around graveyards in the dark. Now they are gonna have to wait a whole hour extra..

 

12:00 noon used to be the time in every town when the sun was at its highest point for the day. The railroads set up the four American time zones because the confusion was fucking up their schedules. I believe it was the British who made it into a worldwide system with 24 time zones.

 

actually...

 

I always thought it was the railroad company that started that

 

Fleming was an engineer for the railroads.