Universal Time

I think it should read the same time on the clock everywhere on earth. No more time-zones.

 

To explain what that would mean, if you lived in London, time would not be any different than before the change, but if you lived in New York, the sun would come up around 11 AM; in Los Angeles it would come up ~2 PM.

 

The Idea has been proposed many times before but has met with opposition along practical, political, regional, historical, ethnic and religious lines.


Hell we can’t even get as consensus here in the united states, let alone among our neighbors to the north, south, east, & west.


Earth Time is out


hotwater

 

Whats the point?

 

lol ok who's time would u like the world to go by?

 

He probably likes using the word Zulu


Hotwater

 

The military already uses it. In the 1800s, it might be 1:30 in one town and 3:00 in the town 20 miles away, and train conductors would often be operating on different standard times, which caused many accidents.

Let's all come together people. It's the same time everywhere anyway, koombaya

 

We already have forms of universal time. Our time zones are simply offsets from UTC.

 

Which location would decide the universal time.

 

I had that thought before, too Posthumous..

And we should go by Prime Meridian time.

 

Which every says they would like, but when your work leaves you sleeping during all day time hours and you never really see the sun, or when your third shift job all of a sudden becomes a day light job, and you no longer have the ability to take your kids out in the morning when you get home.

Muggings etc would definitely increase if it was dark during prime travel and shopping hours on a regular basis. As would break ins when it's dark from 8am-4pm because of your local and the majority of folks are at work.

This idea gets two thumbs down from me.

 

Day time hours might just been from eleven PM to Eleven AM somewhere that's all. A workday may be from midnight to eight AM....and it would be day light then...see?

 

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Maybe you should try doing construction at night.

Or pay the bills for the holophotes.

 

I don't think you understand...it would be DAYLIGHT when you would work...but if we were on universal time, your daylight hours might be from 11 PM to 11 AM or something like that...where somewhere else that would be in the middle of the night? Dig?

 

So, essentially, you're proposing we change the little number on our clocks and watches.

But the world would gain nothing in synchronicity.

Still doesn't make sense to me. Sorry if I'm being dense.

 

No but it would help with flights and stuff like that...that stuff does get confusing...

 

Actually it wouldn't. You'd get off the plane in L.A. at the same time as New York thinking the 7-11 was still open.

 

7-11's are open 24 hours in Michigan :-/

 

Universal time has been around a long time. It goes by the names Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), Universal Time Coordinated (UTC), and sometimes Zulu time for those in the government.

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I thought about it after I wrote my post! Not a good example: how's about the post office?

All I'm saying is, that you would have to memorize the hours other locations use as their "day" just the same as memorizing L.A. is 4 hours behind New York.

Get my drift?

It might actually be MUCH more confusing.

At least I know the post office in New York, Singapore, Cape Town, Bogota, Damascus, Minsk, Port-au-Prince, Tunis, Madras, and Nagazaki will ALL be open at 12 noon LOCAL TIME.