Timeline for What is the importance of having different timezones all over world
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| Mar 12, 2015 at 16:38 | comment | added | Twinkles | In Aviation UTC is the standard. This ensures all pilots regardless of location are using the same 24-hour clock, thus avoiding confusion when flying between time zones. | |
| Mar 11, 2015 at 19:35 | comment | added | A E | @Shadur, Graham is right. I think the difficulty inherent in talking about how things would work if the clock time didn't match the diurnal cycle shows why we don't do this! :) | |
| Mar 11, 2015 at 17:02 | comment | added | GHP | @Shadur, AE isn't saying that Australians would begin their day by waking up after dark, he's saying that roughly at dawn, the Australian clocks would read "10pm", if everyone was on UTC. | |
| Mar 11, 2015 at 15:20 | comment | added | Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI | I vaguely recall there being various psychological and physiologial drawbacks to messing with your sleep rhythm, or having it out of sync with the day/night cycle. | |
| Mar 11, 2015 at 10:22 | comment | added | Henry | Poles and Spaniards eat at different times in the same timezone, perhaps partly for cultural reasons or perhaps because the sun sets later in Madrid than in Warsaw. | |
| Mar 11, 2015 at 10:19 | history | answered | A E | CC BY-SA 3.0 |