Originally Posted by
CDTraveler
UTC as worldwide time is an incredibly stupid idea. People, all 8.2 billion of them, live "locally" not globally. They need a system of time measurement that makes sense in their daily lives, a readily comprehensible framework by which they get up in the morning, go to work, send kids to school, visit the doctor, shop, etc. Most of earth's population has little interest in what happens elsewhere so time zones have no impact on them. Only on a place like Flyertalk would someone think ~8 billion other people should be shifted to a system that makes life a tiny bit easier for a tiny fraction of humanity.
Yes, and along those lines, I think there is a natural inclination for people everywhere to have, roughly speaking, the point in their day when the sun is at its highest in the sky be called "noon", "12 pm" or something similar to a midpoint in how they measure daily time.