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Old 02-19-2012, 01:15 PM   #1
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Default What if the entire world had 1 timezone?

GMT for example.

I was having lunch with a friend and a silly discussion of timezones came up.
Why do we have timezones? Why do we really care what time it is.

So let's say everyone was on GMT time. Time becomes irrelevant since if I say 8pm, it would be 8pm everywhere around the world

So for Calgary instead of the sun coming up at 7am, the sun now comes up at 2pm.. so what?

A day work shift in Calgary would be 4pm to midnight with an 8pm 'lunch'
Flames games would start at 1am.

A person in Toronto would work from 2pm to 10pm

GMT (England) 9am to 5pm

In China from 1am to 9am

We all still be up when the sun is up and sleep when the sun is down. The time is just shifted.

So right now it would be 20:15 world wide

Would it work!?
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