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I'm thinking that clocks to time would be more like GPS to maps. You could just simply ask what position is the sun in a particular location, at a fingers touch. So it would be too much of a big deal for most people. But it would make programmers and things that deal with logical time much easier.

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> But it would make programmers and things that deal with logical time much easier.

But as the article points out, programmers and others who want to work with time without the hassles of timezones already have such a system (UTC).

Only sort of. The abolishment of Daylight Savings would help a great deal in this area, though (because it makes writing time-based code so much harder).

Why only sort of? What could be easier than than a time reference that's constant across the planet, doesn't observe daylight savings, has no leap years (but rare leap seconds, iirc), and can be trivially converted to a local time if necessary? I guess never having to convert to local times because there's no such thing in the world as time zones would be easier, but at the cost of all of the practical everyday uses of local times.

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