[artpepper]

This is basically a form of Utopian thinking, that we should adopt a convention because it's "logical" rather than one that meets human needs.

> People forget how recent is the development of our whole ungainly apparatus. A century and a half ago, time zones didn’t exist.

That's true, but not because everyone was living on GMT. Time zones are somewhat arbitrary, but aligning everyone to a single time zone is even more arbitrary.