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I think the whole world just adopt a single time. We'd just get used to midday being 9pm and eating dinner at 2am. No more time zones to worry about.
Not as simple as that because first: Timezones make it pretty obvious that you have to think or even calculate if it's currently the day or middle of the night. If you want to call someone in another country it's obvious that you'd first have to figure out their local time. If everyone used the same time than this would be easy, but you would've still have to figure out which time range is day time and night time so no benefit there.
For a lot of countries that would also mean that every "solar day" will be two calender days. You wake up at 19:00 March 1st. and just before lunch the date switches to March 2nd. It would be a mess.
It would make it so much harder. With time zones I have additional information beyond UTC.
Worldwide UTC now!
UTC is a thing and used by many industries!
China only has has one time zone for the whole country. Daylight savings can go, but I can understand that because of the earths orbit around the sun there is a need for time zones, I think most people agree that wherever you are, 6am should be morning time, unless everyone wants to move over to military time, and just have a 24 hour clock. It would take some getting used to, but that would be the only way to truly get rid of time zones.
Much of Europe is already using 24hr time.
I can see why, but you also have to consider before the invention of the clock we used sun dials to tell time, so that would effect how to tell what time it is in your particular time zone. I understand that is archaic technology in the modern world, but that is why time zones were invented and still relevant. Ask anyone that works in technology, old habits die hard, and by die hard, they go out kicking and screaming. Some SQL databases I've seen still run Solaris which has been a dead product for like ten years, navy boats that don't connect to the Internet still run windows 95 (believe it or not, I don't care, but I have seen them recently).
Solaris and Windows 95 are not as old as it gets.
There is still plenty of OS/2. In fact, you can still buy it! https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/
And of course, there is lots of DOS left in the wild as well.
I am sure there are some Vaxen still kicking around, especially in the military. I worked for a company that used a lot of DEC Alpha stuff when it was bleeding edge. To my knowledge, their customers are still using it.
I'm not unfamiliar with running DOSBOX just to talk to some old machines that by all logic should have seen EOL 20 years ago...
It would make it so much harder to schedule meetings if I didn't have a handy internationally standardized conversation table that was incorporated into all software to help me know when someone's working hours are.
I've said that for years now, bring back Swatch .beats!
It's a shame it never caught on, especially in the internet age.
And then you go to a different country and suddenly you don't know when you eat dinner.
I don't know about you, but I eat when I'm hungry.