Let’s say people can’t agree on the time to go to bed, and each timezone declared war on every other timezone. Who would win in this conflict? What alliances would form, and will there be betrayal? What would the new world order look like with a standard time for everyone?
GMT+8 looks good with the entire population of China on its side. GMT+1 and +2 have large chunks of Europe and Africa and could be quite strong too. The timezones in the east and west coast of the U.S. might also stand a good chance.
Definitely +8, they have like a third of the world’s population.
The first to lose world be +8.25 they’re at the bottom of Western Australia. There’s roughly 12 people there unless Bruce is passing through. A fuck ton of emu war veterans though. From the side that won
Not to mention that the entirety of China, a singular political and military entity (a fairly strong one nonetheless), is somehow all +8 due to a technicality
Now all of China knows you’re here!
The one with the entire country of china obviously
Yeah I’m regretting migrating from West Australia to East…
Enjoy the new hegemony, you dirty ass sand gropers!
Brother are we the same person?
I don’t regret moving over though lol
Only a few of us are skilled enough to escape that hot mess.
Probably China. It’s one nation, full of industry and under a single leadership. They could produce whatever they needed. China is one time zone.
Next competitor is the slice encompassing a large number of countries in Africa as well as most of western Europe. Huge number of people and industries contained in that slice, but they lack common leadership.
China.
China’s cheating, it’s all crammed forcefully into one timezone, Beijing’s!
In far western China in winter, it could be noon and the sun is barely rising over the horizon. Then in summer the sunset might be at around 1am.I never noticed that China only has one time zone. Must be terrible for the people on the west end
Banking and government office hours!
Oh and +1 isn’t. Look at it, they put Spain in Berlin’s time zone to appease an angry loser 90 years ago and just left it there
Whatever the China Time zone is obviously.
Greenwich Mean Time.
Because it’s mean.
Every military in the world uses UTC so I’m gonna say that.
Otherwise, I’d go for UTC-1 because… well, look at it. There’s no way they could lose because there’s nothing there to lose. Nuke away, boyos, it’s all ocean.
Don’t underestimate the might of Cape/Capo Verde and the Canary Islands!
There should be no time zones. We don’t need them. It’s 8pm, everywhere on Earth at the same time. Darkness is falling at 8pm in Dublin, but it’s still sunny and bright at 8pm in New York. It would take some adjusting but would remove all of the logic and cost associated with timing a particular place.
Ask people in western China how that’s working for them. And that’s only the width of one country, not a continent or hemisphere.
If your friend is of China’s majority Han ethnicity, you can assume that by 3 o’clock he’s referring to Beijing Standard Time. But if your friend is a Uighur, the largest ethnic minority group in Xinjiang, he might be referring to “local time,” which is two hours behind.
^ this is a problem because of the existence of time zones.
In the summer, for instance, it isn’t uncommon in Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital, to see people enjoying a beautiful sunset … at midnight
^ this is NOT a problem. there is no inherent issue with the sun being up at midnight.
Time Zones cause more trouble than they’re worth, as you pointed out. I’m recommending removing them.
I think we can arrive to a best-of-both-worlds solution if we just up the tolerance for when solar noon can be to 12:00±2 h. If China just had +7 instead of +8 as their timezone then 99 % of the population would have solar noon in between 10:30 and 13:30. Same applies to the entire EU (excluding Outermost Regions) if it had +1. The entirety of South America and most of the Caribbean would fit in +4. The US could definitely get away with 3 timezones instead of its current 5 (-6, -8, -10).
China.
Not even a question.
They have 1 time zone.
Either +1 or +8
That said all 4 in America could end life on earth
they could but wouldn’t. not for moral reasons but because if you end all life companies that own you wouldn’t make any money.
Kiribati wins!
They can just go back in time, DUH!
Wow is that map ever a trainwreck
But -5 stronk like bull
Where’s -5? The map’s way too grainy for me to see.
East coast of North America / West coast of South America
Any war with this many aggressors who were all opposed to each other absolutely would just look like everyone killing each other at random. Even without nukes, it would be madness on a scale never before seen, resulting in a quieter, nay sleepier world.
US and Russia would tear themselves apart internally. That leaves China with the largest functioning army, vs the EU if they can mobilize fast enough
