Do We Really Need Time Zones?

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  • čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
  • In this video, I look at the question: "Do we really need time zones?". Time zones cause a lot of problems, and in the last few years, some have called for them to be completely abolished, suggesting instead that the entire world shold just use the eact same time.
    I start this video by very briefly talking about how time zones came to be, before outlining some of the potential upside to a world without time zones... I finish the video off by looking at some of the difficulties of ditching time zones, arguing that actually, it's less complicated with time zones.
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Komentáře • 682

  • @briandoolittle3422
    @briandoolittle3422 Před 5 lety +803

    Love the second segment. You really covered all the important parts of daylight savings.

    • @GummieI
      @GummieI Před 5 lety +6

      @Issa Dashti but if we got rid of DST, you would loose the hour you are gaining right now in another weekend ;) So I guess that is what you call a loose-loose?

    • @PacificEmperor
      @PacificEmperor Před 5 lety +16

      Issa Dashti I hate both the one hour loss and the one hour gain. It throws me off rhythm.

    • @johanneskarlsson3859
      @johanneskarlsson3859 Před 5 lety +10

      I understand the complaints from people in the USA, the south of Europa....(I do not understand why you have it), but as a person that lives in northern Sweden I really like to be able to see the sun when the School or work ends.

    • @briandoolittle3422
      @briandoolittle3422 Před 5 lety +3

      @@johanneskarlsson3859 I have a problem with the change in time. I don't actually dislike daylight Savings Time, I dislike the switch between the two schedules. I'm just using DLS as shorthand for the change. My home state (Washington) is passing legislation to switch to DLS time permanently year round. So we will have that extra hour in the evening, but wont have to shift an hour in the spring and fall. This option is overwhelmingly supported in my area, and is the better option for more northern climates.

    • @joehoe222
      @joehoe222 Před 5 lety

      I don't care, it's all the same to me.

  • @GregoryKarastergios
    @GregoryKarastergios Před 5 lety +856

    Surprised you actually made this video after almost 5 years

    • @WonderWhy
      @WonderWhy  Před 5 lety +165

      It has literally been on my list of video topics for this entire time! Glad I finally got 'round to it - it was surprisingly challenging.

    • @ryanxin1848
      @ryanxin1848 Před 5 lety +17

      It's i n t e r e s t i n g

    • @mr.boomguy
      @mr.boomguy Před 5 lety +49

      @@WonderWhy I guess you lost 'track of time' lol

    • @victornunes9845
      @victornunes9845 Před 5 lety +19

      @@mr.boomguy Get out.

    • @lefterislymperis2242
      @lefterislymperis2242 Před 5 lety +2

      Are you Greek?

  • @bloodspilla55
    @bloodspilla55 Před 5 lety +802

    See you all on May 22nd, 2021 when WonderWhy posts his next video

  • @vooran
    @vooran Před 5 lety +464

    I don't see how the removing of timezones would eradicate the traffic jams seeing how you made the same argument that we'd just wake up the same time as before sun wise, we would still have our work hours as usual and people would still end their days at the same time. 8 hours is still 8 hours even if we wake up at 18:00 or 13:00 =P
    Although as a whole liked the video =D

    • @Faulheit
      @Faulheit Před 5 lety +18

      was wondering the same

    • @Liftium
      @Liftium Před 5 lety +6

      yeah me too

    • @WonderWhy
      @WonderWhy  Před 5 lety +100

      So just to be clear, in the first section of the video I'm basically using OTHER people's arguments since I personally don't think a unviersal time zone would work. Like at all. The idea of this specific example is more that in a world without time zones, we would gradually move away from the traditional "9 to 5", and working hours would be more industry-specific, and maybe even flexible throughout the different season. So while people would adjust to the sun of their location, there might be a some loose variance, leading to less traffic because not everyone would be bound to a start time of 9am.
      Again, I don't agree with this argument, it's just one that I've read!

    • @vooran
      @vooran Před 5 lety +8

      WonderWhy Alright fair enough, would be nice if you were more clear in the video but I really appreciate you explained the ordeal. =D

    • @costasvrettakos
      @costasvrettakos Před 5 lety +2

      @@WonderWhy the same is now, there are businesses that work at night and other that work with shifts 24hours... rush hours will remain, as people want to go at work in the morning and finish in the noon to enjoy some free time during the day. This argument is unthoughtfull, same with the one with going to the bank...
      Edit: you adressed all these a bit later on the video... be carefull with your editing, it might give wrong impression!

  • @WolvesBrandon
    @WolvesBrandon Před 5 lety +54

    Me, from England: "I woke up at 7 am today"
    My friend, from Australia: "Is that... is that bad?"

  • @bateekha123
    @bateekha123 Před 5 lety +171

    My man you’re running on your own time zone uploading like this

  • @WonderWhy
    @WonderWhy  Před 5 lety +59

    Way back in 2014, I made a video aobut the world's strangest time zones (czcams.com/video/uW6QqcmCfm8/video.html) and at the end of the video I posed the question: do we even need time zones? After nearly 5 years since the video upload, I decided to finally tackle this question.
    This was no easy task. In fact, this was one of my one challenging videos to date, and is quite a bit different to the kind of video I normally make. A video was a argumentative style, which relied a lot on opinion and conjecture, as opposed to clearly defined and established facts, was not easy.
    I start the video by trying to make the case for abolishing time zones and the potential upside of having one time for the entire globe, before then transitioning into making the case IN FAVOUR of the status quo, in which I suggest that a universal time zone may in fact cause more problems than it solves.
    Another reason this video is quite different from most, is the use of stock footage. Since this video isn't about history or geography, there were far fewer maps, graphs, timelines, etc. to use, and so I understand that this video contains a lot of 'filler' footage that isn't directly related to what I'm saying. This was necessary given the nature of the video.
    Anyway, this video took me quite a bit out of my comfort zone, but I think that's definitely a good thing. I always want to try new things and experiment, and if that means the odd video flops, it's a risk that I think is worth taking. I hope you guys did enjoy the video, and if not... well, I doubt I'll be making many more like this, so hopefully the next one will be more to your taste!
    Feel free to share your opinion on whether or not we need time zones! I'd love to hear them.
    Be sure to give some love to today's sponsor, Dashlane: www.dashlane.com/wonderwhy. Even just downloading the app is a huge help to my channel, and it's completely free, with no card details needed or anything.
    Thanks to everyone for watching and subscribing!

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un Před 5 lety +199

    My country used to have its own time zone until President Moon persuaded me to change it back to Japan time. Those were the days....

    • @IvanSN
      @IvanSN Před 5 lety +12

      @Maximillius did this to me
      >North Korea
      >Communism

    • @micah2846
      @micah2846 Před 5 lety

      @Maximillius did this to me as well

    • @IvanSN
      @IvanSN Před 5 lety

      @@zxaa2852
      Thanks

    • @joannamichael4642
      @joannamichael4642 Před 5 lety

      You mean Korean time,right? Japan uses UTC+9,but they change it back to UTC+8

    • @IloveRumania
      @IloveRumania Před 4 lety

      Get out. You're not even him.

  • @TyrannoNoddy
    @TyrannoNoddy Před 5 lety +27

    "Do we need daylight savings?"
    "NO"
    excellent

  • @jakovvodanovic9165
    @jakovvodanovic9165 Před 5 lety +92

    I liked the second part of the video because it pointed out all the logical mistakes made in the first part.

    • @alanfriesen9837
      @alanfriesen9837 Před 5 lety +4

      @Jay What would change is that you wouldn't have to do a lot of math to communicate with someone in a distant location. You just check their posted business hours. Fewer mistakes would be made and less frustration would occur.
      "When's the best time to call over there?"
      "Between 2200 and 0300."
      "Alright, I'll set my alarm."

    • @dontaskiwasbored2008
      @dontaskiwasbored2008 Před rokem +1

      @@alanfriesen9837 Yeah that one rare benefit is worth all of the daily side-effects. Good thinking.

    • @alanfriesen9837
      @alanfriesen9837 Před rokem +3

      @@dontaskiwasbored2008 It's not daily side effects that would be the problem because there wouldn't be any. The problem would be that everyone would have to change their mindset. Because of that there would be a lot of one-time side effects as people erred. It would be the equivalent of switching from local measurement to metric measurement. And yes, in the end it would be worth it.

    • @grassytramtracks
      @grassytramtracks Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@alanfriesen9837 there are online meeting planners that can find a suitable time without you having to do the maths yourself and if everyone saw the same numbers on the clock regardless of the time of the day, time wouldn't mean anything. Time having a relatively universal meaning is far more important and useful than a universal time

  • @KasabianFan44
    @KasabianFan44 Před 5 lety +61

    9:45 Myanmar doesn’t use imperial. It uses its own measurements system.

  • @dudewaldo4
    @dudewaldo4 Před 5 lety +16

    You totally changed my mind dude. I've been thinking about a universal time zone for a while and now I see that indeed, having the sun high at noon is far more important than the benefits you would gain

  • @iammrbeat
    @iammrbeat Před 5 lety +43

    This video honestly blew my mind.

  • @RealLifeW0rld
    @RealLifeW0rld Před 5 lety +63

    9:45 UK - Can't decide it wants to use the metric system or not so uses an awkward mix of both. 😂😂
    This made my day and it is absolutely right.🤣🤣

    • @billybobjoe198
      @billybobjoe198 Před 5 lety +12

      So does Canada and Australia.

    • @ianthineachernar
      @ianthineachernar Před 5 lety +8

      @@billybobjoe198 I'm from Australia and while I'm not really that old, I have never heard of any major use of the imperial system here. We use it when we are talking about height, but even then only sometimes. Apart from that, I've never really had to use it.

    • @RealLifeW0rld
      @RealLifeW0rld Před 5 lety +1

      @@ianthineachernar I also generally use feet and inches for height and can't get miles.

    • @travisleeds2910
      @travisleeds2910 Před 4 lety

      @@ianthineachernar and us, i dont think i could get use to shiting with me left hand, and question is the gas petal in center (by the central hub) or is it on the left, if so that would be even weirder, i assume we place the gas petal at or near the central hump, so it is harder to accidently hit it while entering and exiting

  • @isirlaughsalot2675
    @isirlaughsalot2675 Před 5 lety +62

    When wonderwhy uploads, a puppy is born.

    • @tobakroger7504
      @tobakroger7504 Před 5 lety

      If he sees this our youtube feed will be fucked

    • @varana
      @varana Před 5 lety +1

      Statistically, that should be true. It's also quite meaningless, as there are always puppies born somewhere.
      @@Saucy-ws6jc He didn't say "only". When Wonderwhy uploads, a puppy is born - and when he doesn't, as well.

    • @LOLquendoTV
      @LOLquendoTV Před 5 lety

      @@varana he is technically correct...the best type of correct(dead meme revival)

  • @kingbibihabibi
    @kingbibihabibi Před 5 lety +25

    For travel and coordinating meetings and events across timezones it might sound easier to just use one universal time, but in practice all this would do is require that people learn what arbitrary universal times people in other places sleep, eat, etc. Timezones actually function as a useful shorthand for this now by lining up the same components of the day with the same numbers, so we should just keep them.
    For instance, a tourist guidebook might now say "the time in Sydney is UTC+10." Easy, you can do the conversion in your head. Without timezones the book would have to say "In Sydney, people generally sleep between 09:00 and 17:00 and eat lunch between 01:00 and 04:00."

    • @calijguyman
      @calijguyman Před 6 měsíci

      I disagree. Instead of UTC +11 it could still say that, and for example, a US east coaster would be used to "Noon" being around 5 P.M. of what would be World Wide Time, and they would then go "ok, I'm -5 WWT usually, they are +11 WWT, so their "Noon" is +16 hours WWT from what I'm used to, so it'd be roughly 11 P.M WWT for Sydney local "Noon"". I understand that that sounds complicated, but no more complicated than "it's 12:01 PM here, we're -5 UTC, they are +11 UTC so it's 4:01 A.M. there, so, wait, was that meeting at 1 P.M. our time or their time?"

  • @Jame5man
    @Jame5man Před 5 lety +45

    Daylight Savings can go straight to hell

    • @fredact
      @fredact Před 5 lety

      Unless you can convince all your institutions to voluntarily move their starting times, DST is the only way to give people the daylight in one large block at the end of the day, rather than in 2 pieces one at the start and one at the end.

    • @h3nder
      @h3nder Před 5 lety +4

      fredact remove winter time.
      I swear to god, the fact that Greenwich actually doesn't change it's time cuz Greenwich can't he GMT +1 but the rest of England is, as some countries in GMT +0 don't change their time.

    • @DacLMK
      @DacLMK Před 4 lety

      No. Daylight saving is needed.

    • @KasabianFan44
      @KasabianFan44 Před 4 lety

      Dac DT
      No it isn’t.

    • @DacLMK
      @DacLMK Před 4 lety

      @@KasabianFan44 Yes it is. It is needed in the northern hemisphere.

  • @TheBigRedskull
    @TheBigRedskull Před 5 lety +166

    Obligatory “He’s alive” comment

    • @doomxtreme
      @doomxtreme Před 5 lety +1

      He posts a video once every month

  • @Kardia_of_Rhodes
    @Kardia_of_Rhodes Před 5 lety +9

    It should be noted that Myanmar doesn't use Imperial Units, but rather "Traditional" Units that happen to be close to Imperial.
    But the point still stands, they choose not to use Metric.

  • @naveenraj2008eee
    @naveenraj2008eee Před 5 lety +9

    Hi wonder why. How are you? .you uploaded midnight. So i watched when i woke up. Nice details. Awesome explanation. Thanks for your video..😀

  • @johnchessant3012
    @johnchessant3012 Před 5 lety +3

    Finally, the video that you left "for another time" in the strangest time zones video. You have no idea how many times I've watched that one before today! :D

  • @exeterra4825
    @exeterra4825 Před 5 lety +39

    Cool video...
    Now imma go hibernate for another 6 or so months until the next one

  • @Siddif
    @Siddif Před 5 lety

    Great to see a new upload from you.
    As for the videos topic. I think the way time zones work currently is only really an issue if you live near one a regularly cross it. An example would be living in the US and travelling a lot for work meaning crossing time zones between certain states or if you live close to the international date line and regularly communicate with the other side of it.
    For me living on the island of Ireland I can’t cross datelines without a boat or a plane so it always feels like a big deal anyway so I’m always prepared for it but I can imagine it being an annoyance at least if it’s within driving distance especially if within the same country.

  • @MIO9_sh
    @MIO9_sh Před 5 lety +24

    *tamezones* are pretty messed up..

    • @jeffreyanderson1851
      @jeffreyanderson1851 Před 3 lety

      Daylight savings time and time zones in general give our day a social context. When calling someone many time zones away, what is important is the social context, ie, whether someone is likely to be awake at a certain time. Otherwise, you can use email and the message can be read at any time.

  • @johnmft
    @johnmft Před 5 lety +63

    See you all in 6 months lads

    • @ayyylmao1640
      @ayyylmao1640 Před 5 lety

      lol ive seen your videos before, keep it up

  • @nicoheintel3212
    @nicoheintel3212 Před 5 lety

    Finally a new video, thank you for your amazing work/content! :)

  • @mcdrums87
    @mcdrums87 Před 5 lety +23

    I wish I could give you another 👍🏻 for the Daylight Savings Time answer.

  • @cablestick
    @cablestick Před 8 měsíci

    Really well put video with interesting insight! Thank you

  • @hecaryou6816
    @hecaryou6816 Před 5 lety

    The 2nd segment of this video on DST is really good! Keep it up!

  • @johnchessant3012
    @johnchessant3012 Před 5 lety +1

    Wow, two uploads in two months. Amazing!!

  • @KFordmusic
    @KFordmusic Před 3 lety +4

    “It’s not normal to get up at 1pm and sleep at 5am” laughs in Pandemic

  • @SuperCookieGaming_
    @SuperCookieGaming_ Před 5 lety +6

    I am against a universal time zone. but i do think that ending day light savings.

  • @checkmyplaylist6879
    @checkmyplaylist6879 Před 5 lety +41

    We need them to confuse people

  • @silkworm6861
    @silkworm6861 Před 5 lety

    Absolutely love the video, and especially the second part about daylight saving time! I think having time zones makes a lot of sense (even if they are shifted by 1/2 an hour by the way) but UTC or an alternative should be more frequently used to coordinate inter-time zone activities.

  • @Solegor
    @Solegor Před 5 lety +11

    In Russia daylight saving time is abolished.
    One of the rare cases that Russian government issued a really useful law:D the other one - is a ban on homeopathy

  • @jacobbarron3890
    @jacobbarron3890 Před 5 lety

    Been watching since probably just before 2014 love your vids I like that you’re uploading more

  • @ThePirhana11
    @ThePirhana11 Před 5 lety

    a new wonderwhy video always makes my year

  • @calijguyman
    @calijguyman Před 6 měsíci

    I can see both sides, and have a solution for the good point you made about travel/communications with those outside of your current time zone. Right now, you'd generally have to look up, or memorize time differences, and without time zones, we could just have those same conversion tables, but base them on either sunrise or "high noon" (when the sun is at it's apex for the day) at that location, either would be the same effort as now, would give you an idea if it is ok to call or what time to get up when traveling, and would still add the benefit of no longer having any time zone confusion. I don't know how many people would actually benefit, but working for an international company, based on the US west coast and working out of a building on the US east coast, I would LOVE IT if everything was the same time! So much time zone confusion since so many people forget or can't be bothered to include the time zone when scheduling times, and could easily be talking about EST, PST or UTC. It's maddening.

  • @dontaskiwasbored2008
    @dontaskiwasbored2008 Před rokem

    The only video I've found so far that takes anything other than "but it would make it super easy to talk to the other side of the world" into account. 99% of people are not regularly talking to the other side of the world, and the way we do things right now is just a couple of notches away from stupid simple already. Good mention of "use UTC if you need it" too.

  • @EvanEscher
    @EvanEscher Před 5 lety +1

    I feel like we should have more :30 time zones. Here's an example: Las Vegas, Amarillo, and Nashville are all roughly on the same line of latitude. Amarillo is a bit closer to LV than Nashville. Amarillo and Nashville are in the same time zone, while LV and Amarillo are 2 time zones apart. Also, look at the time zone boundary between Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. If Boise and Spokane were in the same time zone, there wouldn't be all those jagged lines.

  • @gui18bif
    @gui18bif Před 5 lety +13

    The EU after abolishing borders, countries, regions, language:
    "Do we need time?"

  • @JoloNavarro
    @JoloNavarro Před 5 lety

    I think this is the video that he said “that’s the topic for another time” on his older video, glad it followed through!

  • @user-vn7ce5ig1z
    @user-vn7ce5ig1z Před 4 lety +1

    2:06 - Quite the contrary. If you're used to sleeping at 20​:00 and you travel to a place where they normally sleep at 07​:00, then you'd have to remember to adjust your alarm and stuff to that local time. Jet-lag would be amplified as your brain tries to adjust to the different system. 5:00 - Again, you may not have to change your clock, but you'd have to change the alarm and your habit.
    6:20 - Exactly, you'd need to memorize the time of day for each region or look it up.
    7:05 - Who says that in such a scenario that they'd use Greenwich as the base again? 🤨
    9:03 - Like that thing kids do where on New Year's Eve they'll say something like "I'm going to the bathroom; see you next year".
    9:25 - And you thought you got flack for using BCE. :-\
    9:28 - Have you ever even seen fireworks during the day? Nothing beats the washed-out, faded beauty of subdued fireworks.
    9:43 - Canada's also yella. ¬_¬ - A _stone_ ? Really? 14lbs units? Seriously? 🤨 What the actual hell Britain‽ ¬_¬
    9:50 - Just tell them it's the "people's timezone". 😉

  • @ronweasley1354
    @ronweasley1354 Před 5 lety +17

    If we all had the same time zone or we all had different ones like we do, it wouldn’t make much of a difference. Traffic probably wouldn’t change either way because rush hour would just be at another time. Talking with people around the world would also just be confusing talking about time and how they wake up at 2 pm while you might wake up at 9 am. People in each time zone would probably just adopt their own time zone based on the sun in their region. It would be pointless

    • @GummieI
      @GummieI Před 5 lety

      Yeah basically it would solve nothing, and create a whole heap of new problems... imaging being tourist in a country in a place that would today be another timezone... you would have no idea when shops would open and close etc

    • @alanfriesen9837
      @alanfriesen9837 Před 5 lety

      @@GummieI Connecting to people around the world would be a lot less confusing. "What time should I call you?" (no math involved).

    • @GummieI
      @GummieI Před 5 lety

      Well you don't need to do any math yourself to convert between timezones already, tons of online sites that does it faster and better than you can yourself ever hope to, so that is kind of a moot point when you directly ask them beforehand, the problems comes with the unscheduled calls more, with our current timezones as long as you know their timezones you know that if you want to call them during their work its somewhere in afternoon that would be best, if its a more private call you going for while they are at home early evening hours would be best. but with a single timezone, ehmm are they at work at 2 pm?, or are they at home but awake, or is it middle of the night, So you would have to have timezones that are just based on workhours instead, so in that regard it would be at best about the same, at worst a lot more confusing to remember. And forget about talking about their what they do at a certain time of day, or be a tourist on the other side of the world... Let's say you are from britain (and we assume that GMT would be the one place where everything would stay as it is now) then take a vacation in Australia, so even though you are used to sleeping from something like 22:00 to 8:00 or something like that, now all of a sudden you ahve to go to sleep at like maybe 10:00 and wake up at like 18:00. So now instead of with our current system you could just adjust your clock to the Australian timezone, you have to instead remembered all the time when you have to go to bed, and wake up, when the shops open and close etc. etc. So yeah as I said solves nothing, but creates a whole heap of problems

    • @alanfriesen9837
      @alanfriesen9837 Před 5 lety

      @@GummieI I find it easier to look up shop hours, and a lot of times you are talking about clock times for follow up conversations, conference call notices, etc. Seriously, once everybody got over the initial adjustment it would be better for everyone.

  • @grahamturner2640
    @grahamturner2640 Před 5 lety +2

    I live in the US state of Arizona. In that state, some parts of it (Navajo Nation) observes daylight savings time while the rest of the state does not.

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG Před 5 lety +1

      And the Hopi Nation within the Navajo Nation does not.

  • @michaelhansen7244
    @michaelhansen7244 Před 5 lety

    I always wondered why we have them including daylight savings. You answered all of my questions thank you.

  • @griff38100
    @griff38100 Před rokem

    My favourite things about this video British description of the hybrid metic system and the day light saving conclusion.

  • @emeraldflame6194
    @emeraldflame6194 Před 5 lety

    A great present, a new wonder why video!!

  • @ItsGroundhogDay
    @ItsGroundhogDay Před 5 lety +1

    An 8:00 phone call is not just an 8:00 phone call when you're calling someone where it's dark and thus they are sleeping.

  • @ahreuwu
    @ahreuwu Před 5 lety

    6:32 you actually described my daily routine, are you kidding me lol

  • @CntRational
    @CntRational Před 5 lety +7

    The problem is, people want to abolish time zones for two reasons: to simplify scheduling, and to simplify calculations. But neither of those things would be better without time zones. (Edit: And I should've watched more of the video before commenting, heh.)
    In the current world, when you want to know whether it's morning, afternoon, evening or night in some part of the world -- you check their time zone, which gives you a good enough approximation. In a world with a single time zone, you'd have to know what clock time corresponds to what solar time in that location. Hardly an improvement.
    As for calculations -- well, you might reform the present, but you can't reform the past. All the time zone calculations would have to stick around to calculate past times and dates. Actually, the timezone database would be even more complicated than before since it would have to account for when countries switched over to the new single time zone.
    Moreover, even if you don't need to worry about past dates, what about checking the correspondence between solar time and clock time? People are going to want a program to deal with that! What about automating the process -- maybe you want a website that does something in the morning, per user? You'll need to make a program to parse the correspondence and translate them accurately! Heck, you'd need a scheme to let the user specify their solar time in the first place. And so on and so on. Calculations would be as complicated as they are now.
    Time zones might be messy, but the alternatives are just as terrible if not worse.

  • @stefantrandafir1099
    @stefantrandafir1099 Před 5 lety

    You actually made the video! I remember you saying about it about 4 years ago!

  • @seamusscullion1596
    @seamusscullion1596 Před 5 lety +1

    Have i died or time travelled. Because you just uploaded and now i feel complete

  • @foobargorch
    @foobargorch Před 5 lety

    That's a good point about there already being a universal time zone. It's also used n the context of software, servers are typically configured for UTC, and it's also often used for dates stored in databases, logfiles, etc.

  • @SohailJafar1
    @SohailJafar1 Před 5 lety

    I was JUST thinking about this!!!!!

  • @AlejandroRodolfoMendez

    good luck fixing the time in argentina, it is a problem in itself. it was tryed to do DST and it were even worst, so i was rollout to before

  • @denelson83
    @denelson83 Před 5 lety

    I know one sector that does not use local time zones-amateur radio communications on shortwave. Everything is in UTC there.
    And this gives me an idea for how to get the best of both worlds: Use two clocks; one set to local time, and the other set to UTC.

  • @TotoDG
    @TotoDG Před 5 lety +3

    2014 Wonder: (posts a video about timezones that convinces people that they’re a good idea, intentionally or not).
    2019 Wonder: _Are_ timezones a bad idea?

  • @BaryLevi
    @BaryLevi Před 5 lety

    Finally. I was waiting for someone to answer this question.

  • @djmhyde
    @djmhyde Před 4 lety +2

    9:44 you forgot to paint Canada in yellow too

  • @malkeynz
    @malkeynz Před 5 lety +1

    7:04 I like how the new "9 to 5" in New Zealand is still 9 to 5, even if it's PM.

  • @jacobmoore788
    @jacobmoore788 Před 4 lety +1

    Ok, but why not both? Like we could become more conscious as a society of UTC and use it to schedule meetings with foreigners or individuals across the country of the country is wide, and we could use local time zones for when they’re best.

  • @burikinodance
    @burikinodance Před 4 lety +1

    If we removed them, the Greenwich time should be everyone's timezone in my opinion, as it was the first one.

  • @vvventure
    @vvventure Před 5 lety +2

    Timezones are alright, maybe we should used both simultaneously, the global timezone represented different to avoid confusion. But, for common people is more useful to know that in Australia is 8AM, therefore you know that is early in the morning, people is waking up or going to work, if you wait an hour all business are open and almost all people is awake and you can called to a business or a relative, etc. Is more pragmatic and relatable, less confusing. If its 8pm everywhere you should be asking at what time does the sun sets or rise in each particular place to actually know whats going on there, since 8pm mean a completely different thing there.

  • @pandabandit77
    @pandabandit77 Před 5 lety +1

    It doesn't matter what the time zone is, you can't change the way the sun hits the earth's surface. We made the time zone to fit the sun rise and sun set. We don't follow the time zone, the time zone follows the sunlight hours. People think it would be easier getting ride of all the time zones but really that fucks up our sense of time of day. If we have a universal time, say it's 1pm all over rn, but just cuz the clock says 1 pm doesn't mean the sun is up on the other side of the world.

  • @MihaelGeng
    @MihaelGeng Před 5 lety +2

    US is -
    *One of the 3 countries that still heavily uses imperial system today
    (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication)
    *One of the 4 countries that still uses Fahrenheit scale today
    (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit)
    *And one of the ONLY 2 countries that fits the both! The other one is Liberia, which was founded by US immigrants!
    Murica is surely a crackpot at some points lol

  • @DaisyGeekyTransGirl
    @DaisyGeekyTransGirl Před 4 lety

    I agree completely with your answer to the second question.

  • @Bhaalspawn84
    @Bhaalspawn84 Před 5 lety

    In Finland, normal working hours are 8-4 and lunch is like 11am. Personally, I work one week morning shift 6am-2pm and one week evening shift 2pm-10pm. My lunch is 10:30am or 6pm in the evening shift.

  • @MrKenichi22
    @MrKenichi22 Před 5 lety

    love your videos

  • @dehumanatlas9197
    @dehumanatlas9197 Před 5 lety

    Solution is simple. We use the 24 time zones that run straight from north to south pole. Runs through the middle of a town? Well, people can regularly walk back & forth one hour. In Kiribati, they can do that but instead a whole day. Australia follows a relatively logical time zone, but both South Australia & Northern Territory follow half an hour behind.

  • @manlikekaycmon
    @manlikekaycmon Před 5 lety

    Hi WonderWhy I love your videos

  • @NBC1232014
    @NBC1232014 Před 2 lety

    I Thank You for making this. This is exactly what I've needed to solve the problem in front of me. Much appreciated. FF@ 6:36 btw

  • @snipermonkey2
    @snipermonkey2 Před 5 lety

    your videos are fantastic

  • @behrensf84
    @behrensf84 Před 5 lety

    You should do a video on whether we should stick with the Gregorian calendar... I would much prefer a system with a ten day week (and three day weekends) three week month and twelve month year, with five days of holiday at the end of the year. This would make the weeks aligned with the months, and every month the same... no more short February, and no more months starting in the middle of the week...

  • @SaadAlisArt
    @SaadAlisArt Před 5 lety

    Please make more videos on countries, geography and many more topics

  • @MGX93dot
    @MGX93dot Před 5 lety +2

    GMT/UTC masterrace.
    9:44 it isn't that awkward of a mix and they teach metric in schools these days. Pretty much just oldies refusing to give up imperial.

  • @briandesjardin9381
    @briandesjardin9381 Před 5 lety

    The thing about changing "days" in the middle of the day (Tues to Wed at like lunch time, etc) was the first thing that came to my mind. I have been working graveyard shift for several years and that really screws with my mental calendar, would hate to see the whole world burdened with it. On a less altruistic note, I would also hate to deal with the same problem even while on vacation, after eventually moving on to another job, or for the rest of my life, should I make it to retirement age.

  • @ArtMares91
    @ArtMares91 Před 5 lety

    Love part 2 of your video

  • @bluemountain4181
    @bluemountain4181 Před 5 lety

    The popularization of UTC time along side Local Time would help. So if you were going out for lunch with your friends you'd talk in terms of LT and if you were arranging a conference call with someone in Dubai you'd talk in terms of UTC, similar to how it works in aviation.
    DST needs to go, as do 12 hour clocks. French numbers might be daft but at least they talk in terms of a 24h clock.

  • @franbalcal
    @franbalcal Před 5 lety

    I've been to the west of China (Xinjiang Province) and I don't know if it was because i went already knowing about the time situation there but I could not make sense of the time for the entire time i was there. They seem to use Beijing time everywhere but the sun seemed to be pretty in sync with it. Like 6pm did look/feel like 6pm should (though it should be closer to 4pm), It was in November so not so close to the winter solstice for it to be a major factor. And people would work in beijing time, places opening at 9am etc (insread of the "logically adapted" 11am. It was rather disappointing hehe

  • @KalikiDoom
    @KalikiDoom Před 5 lety

    an absolutely wonderful channel.

  • @jcon5698
    @jcon5698 Před 5 lety

    Yes! More WonderWhy!

  • @VaraNiN
    @VaraNiN Před 5 lety +12

    6:35 Some programmers wanna have a chat with you :P

    • @WonderWhy
      @WonderWhy  Před 5 lety +7

      Oh, believe me, I've been on those schedules myself! Many of my older videos were made on schedules just like that!

  • @alextaylor1780
    @alextaylor1780 Před 5 lety

    Very good vid once again

  • @TinaCutri
    @TinaCutri Před 5 lety

    I could've sworn that the Spanish siesta wasn't *only* about taking a nap. When I studied there, my professors told me the siesta was more about running errands. Perhaps not going to the bank, since I remember banks being closed from 2-4, but more like grocery shopping.
    Also, my family in France thinks eating dinner at 6 is insane. They always eat dinner at 8 or 9.

  • @benhalsey7310
    @benhalsey7310 Před 5 lety

    Great WonderWhy, now I'll have to wait another 2 years.

  • @Jamestorn48
    @Jamestorn48 Před 5 lety

    He damn near nailed my radio schedule lol Up at noon work at 2 home at 11 bead at 5

  • @Porelorexeus
    @Porelorexeus Před 5 lety

    Having both seems like a good solution. You can compare the local time zone with the universal time. Most people would still use the time zone time, but the universal would be in wider use. Having an agreement that countries can't change time zones would be good as well.

  • @pearceburns2787
    @pearceburns2787 Před 5 lety

    Appreciate the shade given to the UK being officially metric except for road signs, bridge heights, and in personal usage for heights of people. (Other examples may exist, these are just some I can recall off hand)

  • @DarthJacob12
    @DarthJacob12 Před 5 lety

    What about after 23:59? And the date?? If the clock ticks over to 00:00 in the middle of my day for me, when do I classify that the day has ended? It would make it very complicated to classify the beginning and end of business days right?

  • @snuffysam
    @snuffysam Před 5 lety

    IMO if you're ever in a position where you have to coordinate a lot of international meetings, the best option is to just have a second clock (either physical or digital) that's always set to UTC, and ideally everyone you work with does the same.
    Eventually you memorize which times are in the middle of the day and which times are at night - and if you ever forget, you can just look at both clocks and see what the time difference currently is.
    Daylight Savings Time is still annoying to work around internationally but there's a simple solution to that, and it doesn't involve universally adopting UTC XD.

  • @samibasheer4674
    @samibasheer4674 Před 5 lety

    This channel needs way more views and subs

  •  Před 5 lety

    Thanks, finally good reasons against getting rid of time zones! I'm convinced now, time zones should stay. But not in the way there are. There should be 24 (or maybe 12 or 48 or whatever) sliced, evenly spaced, no half or quarter hours, no DST, no other strange stuff that nobody can remember. And whenever you're talking to someone whose time zone you don't know, you should use UTC (looking at you, NASA).

  • @virgilscipion
    @virgilscipion Před 5 lety

    As an MMOG player, I use UTC all the time. Hora franca :) To make it easier I have a UTC clock.
    But I still need to think about "what part of my day is it ?", to translate to my time zone.

  • @harshavardhansahoo
    @harshavardhansahoo Před 4 lety

    Dinner at 10-11pm is also popular in India...dinner time usually starts around 9 to 9.30 in many areas too

  • @TheDWIChannel
    @TheDWIChannel Před rokem

    The time zone boundaries in USA are further west than they belong, so that part of Michigan is almost 1 hour fast of its local mean solar time during standard time; part of Texas is almost 1 hour fast. The boundaries of Central Standard Time belong at 82.5 degrees west and 112.5 degrees west; but these run through Tampa and Oklahoma City.

  • @ashaydwivedi420
    @ashaydwivedi420 Před 5 lety

    The first video of yours which I saw was also related to time zones, few years ago

  • @SupaKoopaTroopa64
    @SupaKoopaTroopa64 Před 5 lety +1

    In Arizona we don't use daylight savings time.

    • @Cjnw
      @Cjnw Před 5 lety

      Except the #NavajoNation portion

  • @LennyColton
    @LennyColton Před 5 lety

    Spain eating late is a byproduct of them being on UTC+1 when much of the country should be on UTC-1, meaning that many people are essentially on double (or triple, during the summer) daylight savings time.

  • @RASH2GO
    @RASH2GO Před 5 lety +1

    Nice video 👍👍👍