Why would it matter if it is technically midnight Saturday in the middle of lunch? Does the name of the day affect you?
Remember that the premise here is that nothing would change other than the labels we assign to periods of time.
Remember that the premise here is that nothing would change other than the labels we assign to periods of time.
I work with coworkers all over the world. Currently it's Monday afternoon where I'm at, and I'm in a meeting with someone in Australia where it's Tuesday morning. Now this is an edge case. For most people, everything between sunrise and sunset is one day. One business day has one name / datecode that's easy to refer to.
I would greatly benefit from using UTC across the board (and in my mind I do a lot of reasoning in UTC) but that would not make sense for 99% of the population around me. Unlike machines, the human time cycle is bound to day-night cycles, so it makes sense to follow that at least approximately.
But... but... you just complained about having to know it's 6am in another place!
If we drop timezones, then to find out whether N is areasonable time for (say) a meeting a quarter of the world over, you need to look up either sunrise/set times or standard business hours (which are different everywhere anyway) and judge by that. Now, you just have to look up the time difference to you.
Without timezones, this would be really confusing. You'd have to say something like "We are open from Day1 9PM until Day2 5AM, etc." which can be annoying.
Do they want to meet for lunch on the afternoon that starts Saturday or the one that ends it?
On top of that, there's more and more research coming up why it's healthy to stick to solar day. I guess solar day will be more and more relevant and we're having (if not already past) peak nightlife.
On top of that, vast majority of population does not care about that at all. Why inconvenience majority for benefit few people will have?
>Is it monday or tuesday? Or do we switch from monday to tuesday at different hour in each location?
Lets say we choose the UTC date time as the standard then it's the same utc date for, and switch from Monday to Tuesday at the same utc hour for everyone.
I think its nice and i hope someone out there working on this. They have my support.
Does the day start with monday morning and ends with tuesday evening? Or is it monday evening in solar morning and tuesday morning in solar evening? Does morning and evening still hold any meaning? Or does morning and evening hours differ in every location?
>Does the day start with monday morning and ends with tuesday evening?
Its up to preference. For some one who care about sun light, he/she might start their day during the sun rise whatever the the time is in that location.
>Does morning and evening still hold any meaning? Or does morning and evening hours differ in every location?
This one is hard to predict until it actually implemented