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by Dylan16807 1204 days ago
We do have a unified time everywhere, UTC.

Putting time zones on top means people have to look up less.

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UTC is effectively a timezone.

Putting tomezones on top means people have to look up more.

Please explain how you would do unified time without UTC?
I would use UTC of course. Why would you do anything else?
Then I don't understand what point you were making when you said "UTC is effectively a timezone."

But if it was notably more convenient, I would expect to see more people using it right now, even when it's not the default.

It's a matter of compatibility, e.g. you're not going to start measuring length in meters when everyone else in your country is using feet. That's why I said UTC is a time zone, nobody uses it outside of the UTC time zone, therefore nobody uses it outside of the UTC time zone.