Why not set a single time that rules the whole world?
For me, this is the worst scenario with these different times:
country A will hav a countdown for a new year's tick: 5, 4, 3, 2, ...
5 hours or so...
country B will have its own countdown... 5, 4...
Isn't it senseless? We celebrate it in different times...a difference reaching 23+ hrs.
The world's age adds every year, and that addition is dependent on where you are standing.
Think of this... it's better to see ALL human beings celebrate the turn of the year simultaneously.
2007-12-15 18:19:48 · 9 answers · asked by Striker 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Why not set a single time that rules the whole world?
For me, this is the worst scenario with these different times:
country A will hav a countdown for a new year's tick: 5, 4, 3, 2, ...
5 hours or so...
country B will have its own countdown... 5, 4...
Isn't it senseless? We celebrate it in different times...a difference reaching 23+ hrs.
The world's age adds every year, and that addition is dependent on where you are standing.
Think of this... it's better to see ALL human beings celebrate the turn of the year simultaneously.
>>>it's not being stupid. say... 7pm in USA. 7am in china. USA eats dinner, since it's daytime in china, busy going for work. that doesn't mean they have to take their dinner too. if 24-hour will be set, and with diffenrent places, they have their own set of activities within that day.. so...?
2007-12-15 18:37:48 · update #1
@linlyons
i didn't mean that all of us take dinner a the same time, nor sleep when the sun is high above. here: at hour 12 usa take lunch, chinese have deep sleep. anyway, this is just a thought. but i disagree on stupidity thing. we are just bound by the time paradigm, that's why feel this is insane--that 7AM is the time to wake up, that 12nn is lunch time, etc.
2007-12-15 19:10:17 · update #2
Yes I know the GMT, that the world rotates, etc...
is it just me? or just me? .. well, it's just me... :)
...and it's just me...
...but standards were set very long time ago, don't know when, and thats what we use now. ahhh..well who knows it will be changed, setting a single time for the whole earth. if i'm born Dec.25 12:01am in my place, i'm born Dec.24 8pm in another place, or dec.25 9am. and celebrating thru countdown is different, that in fact i'm born only once. it would be better, then, with same standard time, like i'm born 5th hr of dec.25.
again..just me... :)
2007-12-16 21:32:19 · update #3
We can't because the Earth revolves in its orbit and as a result the Sun is projected in different trajectory positions from the horizon line around the world... so if we had one singular time zone, when it is high noon where you live and the Sun is at its zenith, then on the antipodal side of the Earth high noon would be midnight, cloaked in complete darkness without the presence of the Sun… very irrational.
2007-12-15 18:26:48 · answer #1 · answered by . 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Everyone already gave excellent answers to a rather curious question.
As far as all Humans celebrating the New Year simultaneously you'll have to convince the Chinese, Vietnamese, Muslims, Jews, Druids and probably more that their New Years have to coincide with our Calendar now. I don't see that happening.
Did anyone mention the crutial role proper timekeeping plays in navigation? If everything ran at the same time it would be impossible to direct air and sea traffic.
Personally I don't want to have 3am be noon or whatever. Somethings just don't need fixing.
2007-12-15 22:24:25 · answer #2 · answered by Robert B 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Just a precision to what has been said:
GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is no longer used and replaced by UTC (coordinated Universal Time) which is the same, though.
Zulu is the same as UTC but with the difference that it is the naming of each time zone: From Zulu, going eastward is; Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta - and westward: Mike, November, Oscar, etc.
While seafarers kept to the former GMT, airmen used the Zulu terminology.
Today, the standard is to use only UTC. When talking about the winter time in e.g. Norway, one says no longer Alpha but UTC+1.
2007-12-15 23:01:14 · answer #3 · answered by Michel Verheughe 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
So, let's see - you dislike the "convention" of using the names and numbers of the hours of the day to reflect the activities of the day. Of course, in a sense you are right, if it is 7 a.m. but obviously a point in the day-night cycle where someone should be sleeping, then the name of the hour for sleeping at that place WILL be 7 a.m. And you won't be confused about what TIME it is.
Only your idea to establish a uniform global "clock" will mean we have to change the "convention" of ALL the rest of our language usages that relate to activities that occur regularly at set hours. Instead of remembering to adjust for different time zones and the International Date Line (you forgot about that one), if I want to call my colleague in China before breakfast, I have to work out what point on the global clock is HIS breakfast time. I might decide that best time to call is at bedtime - for me. The heck with the clock.
Nope, I think your idea is too difficult in practice.
Besides, the "a.m." and "p.m." terms are REALLY specific to LOCAL time - they are from the Latin, "ante meridiem," and "post meridiem."
As for your reason to make this change, a global "time" when the New Year begins all at once .... personally, I think it's great fun to see those different celebrations taking place, one after another, what a heck of a great party!
2007-12-15 22:28:48 · answer #4 · answered by Der Lange 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
that is very stupid.... oh ****... if 7pm in the USA equivocate to 7pm in China... then we will see the sun set, while they see the sun rise.... isn't t that stupid?? sun rise at 7pm?? the outline of the world is Sphere, indicating that half of the Earth is dark (away from the sun), while the other half is bright (facing the sun). It's idiotic to think of the same time zone.. by the way, the Hours DOES NOT ADD UP!!! .... it remains constant..
2007-12-15 18:27:59 · answer #5 · answered by J 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well that would be hard because the earth rotates and therefore we must have different time zones ,because it is impossible to have one time zone- the only way this could be true is if the earth never rotated.
2007-12-15 20:17:52 · answer #6 · answered by phelan1950 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GMT is a standard time only and all meteorological observations are reported in GMT only throughout the world.
2007-12-16 06:00:25 · answer #7 · answered by Arasan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the world doesn't care how old it is
Time is measured by sunrise and sunset so no matter where you are
any way we already have it
Its called ZULU time or Greenwich mean time and is the worlds standard time it was invented so sailors could navigate accurately
2007-12-15 18:34:23 · answer #8 · answered by Stephen B 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
different space= different time -the only solution is to live in the same strip of land all huddled up!
2007-12-16 08:46:31 · answer #9 · answered by jubjub firefly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋