Reminder: Clock Springs Forward this weekend

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Time stand still
I’m not looking back but I want to look around me now
See more of the people and the places that surround me now
 
I read somewhere that commercial airline pilots work off a clock that is the same everywhere in the world all the time. If you take off at 2 pm and fly for 6 hours, you land at 8 pm, no matter which way you cross time zones or how many. There are advocates for that system for the rest of us. Basically eliminate time zones and everybody in the world is on the same time.
 
Time, keeps flowing like a river
To the sea, to the sea
Till it's gone forever
Gone forever
Gone forevermore

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Time
The past has come and gone
The future's far away
And now only lasts for one second, one second

Can you teach me 'bout tomorrow
And all the pain and sorrow, running free
'Cause tomorrow's just another day
And I don't believe in time
 
Time as we know it was invented on November 18, 1883.



"SALLY HELM, HOST: Here is something that I learned recently. In the air above us, up at 35,000 feet, it is the same time everywhere.

DICK HENRY: Universal Time, which is the time at the Greenwich meridian, is used all around the planet Earth today by every single airline and air force in the world.

HELM: This is Dick Henry. He's an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University. And he said, think about it. There are all these planes flying all over the Earth at hundreds of miles an hour, and you don't want to get confused by time zones when you're trying to keep them from crashing into each other.

Dick has talked to his friend Steve Hanke about this for years. Steve's an economist, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins. And he says it is not just pilots who need Universal Time. Investors need it, too.

STEVE HANKE: You can trade 24 hours a day, almost around the clock in gold, currencies, stocks and everything else under the sun. And those are all time-stamped using Universal Time.

HELM: Hanke and Henry were telling me about all this because they have this little proposal.

HENRY: Yeah, Steve and I want to abolish the time zones.

HELM: No more time zones.

HENRY: We want 24-hour world time, everybody on the same clock.

HELM: You're fully serious about this. Like, is this a serious proposal?

HANKE: Oh, my goodness.

HENRY: Yeah.

HANKE: Of course it's a serious proposal.

HELM: If it's 10 o'clock in New York, it is 10 o'clock in Shanghai and Sydney and Nairobi. It is 10 o'clock everywhere."

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"HELM: There were 23 local times in Indiana, 27 in Illinois, 38 in Michigan.

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HELM: At the center of this whole ridiculous time system is one man, William F. Allen. He's like the railroads' time czar. One of his jobs is secretary of the General Time Convention. It is his job to keep track of every schedule, every train-sized time zone - everything. And William F. Allen - he's not like a fancy railroad baron. He's more like a bureaucrat. A newspaper description of him from the time said that he had sort of a nervous vibe, that he looked like an Episcopal preacher because he wore this high-collared vest that buttoned up the front.

Passengers were complaining all the time about this really confusing system. Allen would have heard from them. They're saying, come on; can you please fix this? There's this high school principal named Charles Dowd who has become obsessed with changing the way we do time.

WHITE: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we all know people like this. They just get fixated.

HELM: Dowd is like, all right, everybody, picture this. We divide the country into four sort of vertical areas, like zones. And then in each zone, it is the same time."
 
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"Rather than try to regulate a variety of time zones all around the world, we should instead opt for something far easier: Let's destroy all these time zones and instead stick with one big "Universal Time."

Does that sound extreme? Perhaps, but perhaps not. This map at the top of this post gives you an idea of what the world looks like now, and what it would like if we instead stuck to single system of Universal Time. The logic of Universal Time is strikingly simple: If it's 7 in the morning in Washington D.C., it's 7 everywhere else in the world too. There are no time zones. Wherever you are, the time is the same.


While it may ultimately simplify our lives, the concept would require some big changes to the way we think about time. As the clocks would still be based around the Coordinated Universal Time (the successor to Greenwich Mean Time that runs through Southeast London) most people in the world would have to change the way they consider their schedules. In Washington, for example, that means we'd have to get used to rising around noon and eating dinner at 1 in the morning. (Okay, perhaps that's not that big a change for some people.)

But in many other ways, Hanke and Henry argue, the new system would make communication, travel and trade across international borders far, far easier."

For those who don't subscribe, you can google Hanke Henry, the economist and astronomer who are advocating this.
 
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BillOfRights said:

"Rather than try to regulate a variety of time zones all around the world, we should instead opt for something far easier: Let's destroy all these time zones and instead stick with one big "Universal Time."

Does that sound extreme? Perhaps, but perhaps not. This map at the top of this post gives you an idea of what the world looks like now, and what it would like if we instead stuck to single system of Universal Time. The logic of Universal Time is strikingly simple: If it's 7 in the morning in Washington D.C., it's 7 everywhere else in the world too. There are no time zones. Wherever you are, the time is the same.


While it may ultimately simplify our lives, the concept would require some big changes to the way we think about time. As the clocks would still be based around the Coordinated Universal Time (the successor to Greenwich Mean Time that runs through Southeast London) most people in the world would have to change the way they consider their schedules. In Washington, for example, that means we'd have to get used to rising around noon and eating dinner at 1 in the morning. (Okay, perhaps that's not that big a change for some people.)

But in many other ways, Hanke and Henry argue, the new system would make communication, travel and trade across international borders far, far easier."

For those who don't subscribe, you can good Hanke Henry, the economist and astronomer who are advocating this.
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I get that in a way. Otoh, having time zones is such a shorthand way of capturing what part of their day you're catching others in. Seems like that gives a lot of insight of why they might feel rushed by lunch, the end of the day, fatigue or whatever.
 
Well, the smart money's on Harlow and the moon is in the street
And the shadow boys are breaking all the laws
And you're east of East Saint Louis and the wind is making speeches
And the rain sounds like a round of applause
And Napoleon is weeping in a carnival saloon
His invisible fiancee's in the mirror
And the band is going home, it's raining hammers, it's raining nails
And it's true there's nothing left for him down here

And it's time, time, time
And it's time, time, time
And it's time, time, time, that you love
And it's time, time, time.
 
uncsig said:
Hated waking up in darkness this morning with no daylight till about 7:40. At least my kids are grown and I no longer have to fight waking them up in the darkness.
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My kids definitely weren’t happy about being woken up this morning.
 
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