You’d probably wake up about the same UTC time that you currently wake up, whatever that is. Do you imagine that if your state switched to UTC everyone would just begin a free for all and show up to school and work just whenever? Of course not.
> My family in NC would never know what time to call.
Probably the exact same time they call now. I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t be able to figure it out.
Today if you are American and I am French, if I say "we start at 8:30 and finish at 16:30" you would understand immediately. In UTC you would need to convert.
Of course UTC helps when we need to agree on the time to have a call.
I guess the advantage vs drawback depends on the kind of messages people usually convey
That question is difficult to answer now. I live in Seattle and our schools aren’t consistent even within the city. The variance in start time among public schools is >1 hour.
I don’t actually want UTC. But I’d take it over the current crap.
OTOH everything which is international will be easier.
This is a trade-off.
Now - I am also against DST, but would realistically keep immutable timezones.
EDIT: Ah, of course someone already posted it in this thread.