So You Want to Abolish Time Zones (2015)

Doesn't China still do this? I believe its one legal jurisdictional timezone despite spanning three or four real ones. And people do what's said here: they run their lives to follow the diurnal clock with some minor variances to talk to the centre. (Beijing) I run my servers on UTC. No summertime, and I'm fine. Midnight log rolls are in a great time for me living my best life in gmt+10. I am fix things, in core body clock hours.

I first read this article several years ago and hated it. Giving it another shot, I still do. There are probably real issues that would come by abolishing time zone but they aren't raised here. This article was written in 2015, when it was already extremely easy to search "What time does the work day start in Australia?". It's only gotten easier and easier as search engines implement smart widgets, of course, but even then it was not at all…

I've been using UTC on all of my devices since college and never looked back. No changing clocks during travel. Log files, astronomical events, everything is easy to parse on one clock. It's less complicated than the author makes it out to be. This isn't 1980 where people call people directly. I never call people without a pre-scheduled appointment. Usually both parties state their available times and a common time is chosen. For friends and family a message amounting to…