Pros and cons of abolishing time zones

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GTrang
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Pros and cons of abolishing time zones

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There have been many proposals to abolish time zones, thus making it UTC everywhere in the entire world. Abolition of time zones is included in the Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar, for example.

But what are the pros and cons of abolishing time zones?

Some of the pros and cons could be found at https://qntm.org/abolish and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition ... ones#Usage.
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funkervogt
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Re: Pros and cons of abolishing time zones

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Once AIs take over, they'll abolish time zones and probably just use UTC everywhere.
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Re: Pros and cons of abolishing time zones

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funkervogt wrote: Sun Jun 11, 2023 12:56 pm Once AIs take over, they'll abolish time zones and probably just use UTC everywhere.
Except America and UK to follow local expectations.
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