Obligatory reply: http://qntm.org/abolish
However, I still think that the time zones we have right now are needlessly complicated. In particular I dislike that they change all the time. zoneinfo is updated several times a year. Why? It makes no sense.
e.g. a state decides it wants to be on the same timezone as a neighbour so that trade goes smoothly.
or more frequently: in most countries, it's up to individual states/provinces whether they follow daylight savings or not; so there's always a few each year that decide to start doing or stop doing daylight savings.
Is it easier to arrange a common time with someone in a different timezone or someone who is in the same timezone but works a night shift?
...which is the exact same thing as googling "current time in Melbourne" under the current scheme. Abolishing timezones does not simplify anything, it just shuffles the cognitive work differently.
> Let me find a webcam somewhere in that city.
Seriously? Can't just Google "sunrise time in Melbourne"? Sure way to lose credibility fast with writing like that. In fact, finding out the sunrise time was all s/he needed to do to figure out if it was a good time to call the uncle.