Global Zonal Time and getting up early

28Jun08

This and all my other blogs are using UTC time. So that means wherever I am in the world the time here (blogtime) is always the same for postings and checking stats and so on. I do the same with my email and laptop because of the travel.

With globalization, outsourcing and increasing travel I think this is going to become more than a trend. When the US decided to change the date for the daylight savings time change it caused a global ripple in everything from telecommunications to travel to business hours in some companies in India.

So perhaps the globe should go global time-wise so it’s the same time all over the world. It could be just divided into 24 zones similar to what happens now and our time would read 13:00 Zone 1 or 13:00 Zone 12 and the Zone 1 would be the first zone the same as 1PM is now (early afternoon)and zone 12 would be the same as 1AM is now. But it would all be 13:00 everywhere and we wouldn’t have to worry about changing our watches, clocks or schedules.

Things like daylight saving time could just be announced for a certain date and instead of opening at 09:00 shops and offices would open at 08:00 in the spring. And vice versa for the fall. We all know we get up an hour earlier or get an extra hour in the morning with the two changes so why switch all the clocks around all the time. I have 6 clocks to change here and they never have the same time exactly with all this switching around. Better still put everything an hour earlier permanently and globally to save the electricity that daylight savings time is supposed to.

Anyways I haven’t thought about all the implications to this. I was just changing one of my clocks in a room that doesn’t get used too often and thought something ought to be done about this.

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