would one timezone/date internationally work?

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i've been puzzling about this for years.

think of the advantages of having only 1 timezone and 1 date. flights would leave at say 3pm, arrive at 12pm no matter where you are in the world. emails, phonecalls - everything.

we could agree on a time like 23:59 GMT on 31 december 2013. internationally clocks would be set to 23:59 and dates to 31st december 2013.

in what is currently the GMT timezone (longitude 0) people would continue to get up at 6:00 and go to bed at 23:00 but on longitude 180 the opposite would occur i.e. wake up at 23:00 and go to bed at 6:00 with all the stages inbetween.

would it work?
 
no Ninja'd we'd do away with am and pm. just hours zero to twenty four.
 
I think two would work.

International and national time.
 
You'll just replace one problem with another. The problem being not being able to tell at what stage of the day 9 o'clock would be for all the locations in the world. Could work though
 
No it wouldn't work.

Currently doing international business is easy because you know people work from 8am to 5pm.... once you know the time difference its easy to know if they're operating or not.

one time would complicate that unfortunately because everyone would work different hours, so you would more than likely need to check each and every time whether its in their operating hours or not.

Plus it would mess with peoples cycles, since we're all very psychologically accustomed to a certain time being day and a certain time being night.
 
It's still pretty simple now, wait until we colonise Mars and then trying to schedule a Skype call.
 
Works for NATO and airlines: "Since the NATO phonetic alphabet word for Z is "Zulu", UTC is sometimes known as Zulu time. This is especially true in aviation, where Zulu is the universal standard.[23] This ensures all pilots regardless of location are using the same 24-hour clock, thus avoiding confusion when flying between time zones."


From:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
 
The Sony-Ericsson Txx (not T18, not T28, not T68) had some worldwide time system but it died soon after.
"Seemed like a good idea, at the time"

Ericsson T20 (Swatch internet time)
 
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Billy said:
Works for NATO and airlines: "Since the NATO phonetic alphabet word for Z is "Zulu", UTC is sometimes known as Zulu time. This is especially true in aviation, where Zulu is the universal standard.[23] This ensures all pilots regardless of location are using the same 24-hour clock, thus avoiding confusion when flying between time zones."


From:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
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you seeeee - me and NATO :-))
 
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