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Originally Posted by Deepflow
I don't like the idea of many timezones, at least in the current world it seems hugely impractical to me. It would also make talking about times in different parts of the world virtually meaningless unless you were acquainted with exactly where it was in the world and which hours of the day that particular place normally had sunlight. For example, eight o clock pm in Japan is reasonably easy to understand for people not there. Early evening, basically. Whereas early evening in Japan could be 3 o clock with this system, or 12, or whatever. It would either lead to mass confusion or people speaking about time in terms of where the sun was when describing events. Which to me seems a step backwards.
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Well one solution would be to have a standardised worldtime that is used for synchronisation (for instance the number of seconds passed since <some arbitrary starting point>), and then use local times for convenience. You'd then organise meetings with people in other countries by using the world-time, which theyd then translate into their own system. This is essentialy what we do now with GMT/
UTC anyway, so eliminating local systems wouldnt really have any benefits and would just cause a lot of pointless hassle and confusion.