[birdmanjeremy]

UTC is a terrible choice, I don't even know what time I would wake up in UTC. My family in NC would never know what time to call. I'd be OK with PST or MST/PDT. I'd prefer more light in the evenings though, I work an early schedule and don't actually care if it's light when I go to the office.

[dpark]

> I don't even know what time I would wake up in UTC.

You’d probably wake up about the same UTC time that you currently wake up, whatever that is. Do you imagine that if your state switched to UTC everyone would just begin a free for all and show up to school and work just whenever? Of course not.

> My family in NC would never know what time to call.

Probably the exact same time they call now. I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t be able to figure it out.

[BrandoElFollito]

It would be complicated to answer questions such as "what time does school starts in your county"?

Today if you are American and I am French, if I say "we start at 8:30 and finish at 16:30" you would understand immediately. In UTC you would need to convert.

Of course UTC helps when we need to agree on the time to have a call.

I guess the advantage vs drawback depends on the kind of messages people usually convey

[dpark]

> It would be complicated to answer questions such as "what time does school starts in your county"?

That question is difficult to answer now. I live in Seattle and our schools aren’t consistent even within the city. The variance in start time among public schools is >1 hour.

I don’t actually want UTC. But I’d take it over the current crap.

[BrandoElFollito]

Well yes, I mean every timing relative to the day/night cycle will be difficult. "What time do your kids go to bed?" , "what time are the main news?", etc. Saying 13:00 will not help me.

OTOH everything which is international will be easier.

This is a trade-off.

Now - I am also against DST, but would realistically keep immutable timezones.

[lenocinor]

I feel compelled to post https://qntm.org/abolish .

EDIT: Ah, of course someone already posted it in this thread.

[dpark]

I feel compelled to point out that I specifically said I do not want UTC. :) I simply hate the daylight savings time switch so much that I’d choose standardization on UTC over it. I’d much, much prefer constant standard or daylight time (with time zones) over UTC though.