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Already addressed: https://qntm.org/continuous

Suffice to say, we stopped doing that in the 19th century for very good reasons.

I didn't even think about the international date line.

(x) I shouldn't need to adjust my wristwatch every few miles

Time zones were a premature optimization. Now we all have GPS, so we can return to location based times.

Timezones were introduced as a generalization of country wide time references. And those were introduced because trains became so fast that calculating train tables with local time was very confusing.

That issue wouldn’t be solved with GPS.

Of course it would! You know the location of each station and your watch would automatically adjust depending on your location as you travel (using GPS or whatever). People with mechanical wristwatches might find it tedious :-)

Definitely a no-brainer, I'd say.

Absolutely. No brain whatsoever.

This post has been up for over 450 .beats, and seriously nobody has pointed out that Swatch Internet Time solves all these problems?