Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth?

Swerker@feddit.nu to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 90 points –

And instead changing the time work and other things happens depending on where you are. Would be easier to arrange meetings across the globe. Same thing applies to summertime. You may start work earlier if you want, but dont change the clocks!

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94% of the population of China lives in east of the heihe-tengchong line, which means that for 94% of the population the timezone is at most 1 hour off of the "true" time, which is pretty normal.

Half of Canada's population lives in the Quebec-Windsor Corridor, but we still use like 7 separate time zones.

Also that 6% you're leaving out is more than twice Canada's population.

Half of Canada's population is less than the population of New York State. Y'all tiny. Maybe more people would live there if it wasn't a frozen wasteland.