thinking caps time again. what would be pros and cons to the world having the same time, ie u.k usa aus.russia

Question

everywhere on the planet its say noon or 5 pm would it be weird or would people get used to it.

Answer 1

The French. We (UK) accepted the SI units and got rid of our Imperial units, in exchange for the rest of the then EU accepting some english standards. One was GMT, located at Greenwich. The world thus does have the same time, its calibrated on Greenwic, and Noon, the time when the sun is highest in the sky, calculated and adjusted accordingly.

However, the French have since planted a line of trees running through Paris Mean Time. It is conformation that the French have a nasty case of PMT, or are simply just The French are revolting again. This time it is over the location of the Prime Meridian - the line of longitude from which all time zones are referenced.

France is now marking out "Le Meridien" with trees and olive groves and a mass picnic, joining the 337 towns and villages over a distance of 960 kilometres. This is not the line that runs through South East London in the UK, but the French version that lies just over two degrees east of Greenwich and nine minutes and 22 seconds ahead of it.

To suggest, however, that Paris might usurp Greenwich's supremacy is ridiculous. Paris ceased to be a prime meridian candidate following a centuries-long tussle. The deathblow for the French meridian was delivered in 1884 in Washington, USA, when an international conference recognised Greenwich as the centre of time.

In retrospect, it was the only decision that could have been made. The vast majority of mapmakers and sailors were already using the Greenwich meridian as their reference. Only Brazil and Santo Domingo backed the French claim.

Its all about beating the British - For a while, France stuck to its line. But eventually, the disparity became impossible to support and France was forced to recognise world opinion. Not that French pride should feel all that wounded. They did trounce the British when it came to devising an international system of weights and measures.

It was the French who proposed the very sensible metric system over what I must confess was our very clumsy and absurd British system of chains, furlongs and miles - still used in the US lol.

The French also captured the very definition of the metre. In the days before atomic precision, the unit was originally defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a meridian passing through Dunkirk and Barcelona, and, hence, also passing very close to Paris.

So Greenwich won time and Paris won distance. Entente cordial? Almost. In what might be regarded as a piece of one-upmanship, the long line of trees to be planted across France will ensure the Gallic meridian is visible from space.

Intergalactic travellers looking for the Greenwich line are not offered such a convenient marker. They must search for the Millennium Dome instead.

Answer 2

PROS - everyone can watch the same tv, no having to organise phone calls to other countries, everyone could celebrate occasions together (eg new years at the same time)....cant think of any more :)
CONS - the rotation of the earth would be different according to the same time (eg 5pm could be night time somewhere and the day another place), in addition to the previous answer sport teams and events(eg soccer worldcup) would take longer to commence as the teams that travel everywhere and wouldnt be able to get planes to different countries in time as the time zones allowed the teams to travel at night and play at day...if u know what i mean but im confusing myself someh just ignore this commnet :P
WOW the cons seriously outweigh the pros lol

Answer 3

So, are you suggesting that people in different timezones go to work in da middle of the night???? Come on have you really thought htis thru buddy