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I think having a unified time everywhere is a really obvious advantage. Time being measured differently based on geographic location is completely silly. You would still need to look up how a different location is scheduled but you also need to do that with timezones so there's no disadvantage, only an advantage.


We do have a unified time everywhere, UTC.

Putting time zones on top means people have to look up less.


UTC is effectively a timezone.

Putting tomezones on top means people have to look up more.


Please explain how you would do unified time without UTC?


I would use UTC of course. Why would you do anything else?


Then I don't understand what point you were making when you said "UTC is effectively a timezone."

But if it was notably more convenient, I would expect to see more people using it right now, even when it's not the default.


It's a matter of compatibility, e.g. you're not going to start measuring length in meters when everyone else in your country is using feet. That's why I said UTC is a time zone, nobody uses it outside of the UTC time zone, therefore nobody uses it outside of the UTC time zone.




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