It wouldn't be easier just for computing. If I need to coordinate stuff with someone in a different time zone, it'd be much easier to be able to just say "Let's have a call at 4pm," instead of figuring out what his timezone is. I guess you'd still have to know if 4pm is a good time for him though. So he'd have to have some sort of indicator of what the waking/working hours are in his region... some sort of time zone. Nevermind, the more I think about it the more I realize that timezones are pretty reasonable.
> You are just pushing the complexity somewhere else. It might make computer programming a bit easier, but everything else would be harder.
It would make communicating times easier and less prone to confusion.
> And people still sleep at night, so you would still need to know when they are awake, when they work.
Right, you would need to know when the particular people you are dealing with would be available, but when communicating times to coordinate an event, the numbers used would have the same meaning. I don't see where any complexity is being added to compensate for that that is being lost.
> I don't see where any complexity is being added to compensate for that that is being lost.
You are focusing on only a single usage of a clock: To coordinate time to speak.
Clocks are used for much more than that, for example: Our store hours are 9-5 days, well no, 9-5 in this city, but in that city it's 8:30-4:30, and so on and so on.
Every place you go you'll have to find out the local time when stores close, or when a tv show is on. Of course you could setup regional borders where all the cities in that area close at the same time.
Maybe we'll call it zones instead of areas - I know! Call it time zones!
Or laws like: Checks must be cashed if received before 4PM that day. Except now you'll have to create a system to be able to say, no, it's 4PM in this city, but in that city it's 3PM.
> Every place you go you'll have to find out the local time when stores close, or when a tv show is on.
You actually have to find that out for specific stores even with local time, and TV showtimes actually vary by location now (sometimes because they shown at constant universal time, sometimes because they are shown at region-specific time that doesn't happen to equate to a constant either in local or universal time), so neither of those is an additional cost.
Sure, but you can make a reasonable assumption that they're open in between certain hours of the day. I can make a reasonable assumption and say stores are open 11am-4pm everywhere, and I'd be right more times than not.
With a universal time, you'd need to keep track of what "11am-4pm" translates to in your local area and determine it that way.
You are just pushing the complexity somewhere else. It might make computer programming a bit easier, but everything else would be harder.
And people still sleep at night, so you would still need to know when they are awake, when they work.