Monday, May 07, 2007

Seriously: American Standard Time

This idea keeps getting better and better: America needs one national time zone.

I've shown the hours of daylight would be acceptable:

National Time of UTC-6 on December 1st
New York: 6am - 3:30pm
Chicago: 7am - 4:20pm
LA: 8:40am - 6:45pm

National Time of UTC-5 on June 1st
New York: 4:30am - 7:20pm
Chicago: 5:30am - 8:20pm
LA: 7:43am - 10pm


And now I've found a precedent: China! They used to span 5 time zones, and now they whole country is unified under one time. Think about all the benefits. Plus, I think this chart will clear everything up.

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1 comment:

  1. Niraj5/07/2007 10:53 AM

    Good thing you included that picture...I was totally lost without it.

    When we unify the timezones, can we also get rid of useless daylight savings? As expected, the change this year didn't change energy consumption at all. Good thing we spent billions of dollars changing equipment and software to accommodate the change!

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