This past Sunday morning marked the start of daylight saving time and it got me thinking.
why do we have time zones? I don't understand why the whole world isn't just on the same time everywhere. 7:00 pm is 7:00 pm everywhere its just in some cultures 7:00pm is the middle of the day while others its the morning and for us it would be the evening. Now I understand this would lead you to believe that I want Eastern Daylight Time to be the one everyone changes to. However I am willing to change to whatever would work the best for everyone else.
Is it too much to ask that when I say its 7:00pm I mean its 7:00pm no matter where I am? In fact there is already a Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
The hours, minutes, and seconds that UTC expresses is kept close to the mean solar time at the earth's prime meridian (zero degrees longitude) located near Greenwich, England.
That's great lets just switch to that time so I'll eat dinner at the same time as I always do but instead of calling it 6:00pm it will be 2:00pm. "wtf Adam I'm not eating dinner in the middle of the afternoon at 2!" if this is what you are thinking then you do not understand the concept. It'll be the evening and the same time as usual its just the custom for Ohio will be to eat at 2pm which will be EDT's 6pm. But there won't be a EDT anymore it'll just be one time and that's it... Then when a TV show comes on they will say it will air at 8pm, now depending where you live will determine if that is late or early...
is this making sense?
7 years ago
What are your thoughts on the metric system?
ReplyDeleteI love the metric system. Soooo much easier than what we use. Everything is in 10's, and its really easy to memorize and understand. Let's go metric...
ReplyDeleteto adams post, i think that using this system would be hard on the media. though a weak argument something to consider. sayin 7 pm may be something to those in china and if our 7pm is primetime for us its not for them. The time zones help regulate the 24 day schedule around the world
ReplyDeleteI understand where you are coming from Jamie but then again I get to China and I ask when is your guys news on? they would say 5am and I know exactly when that will be because my watch and phone are already set perfectly
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