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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Swatch tried the timezone free time and
it was a commercial failure:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time</a><br>
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Presumably people didn't see enough advantages in the lack of
timezone to adopt the new convention.<br>
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Note that for this to work, it would imply that the calendar and
the day also has to be fixed in one timezone meaning that the
transition between days will happen at different period of the
local day, some switch at night, some in the middle of the day.<br>
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On 06/08/2014 7:39 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:53E2BCAD.4040309@cs.ucla.edu" type="cite">In
Vox yesterday Matthew Yglesias argued that time zones ought to be
abolished, writing "They were a good idea at the time, but in the
modern world they cause more trouble than they are worth." It's
tempting to agree. See:
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Yglesias M. The case against time zones: They're impractical &
outdated. Vox 2014-08-05.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.vox.com/2014/8/5/5970767/case-against-time-zones">http://www.vox.com/2014/8/5/5970767/case-against-time-zones</a>
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Yglesias's underlying justification is essentially the same one
that McCarthy and Klepczynski used in their proposal to
discontinue leap seconds; see Steve Allen's summary of the
resulting controversy in
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/"><http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/></a>.
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