Could UTC Replace Time Zones?
Swatch once tried to kill time zones with .beats. But could UTC be the serious replacement the world actually needs? -
Best overlap: 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Mumbai is 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM in Geneva.
Keep meetings inside 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Mumbai — that maps to 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM in Geneva. You share roughly 5 hours a day. That's enough for regular meetings, but treat the window as prime time and guard it. Because Geneva and Mumbai don't both observe daylight saving, plan to re-check the overlap around March and November.
| Local time | 12am | 1am | 2am | 3am | 4am | 5am | 6am | 7am | 8am | 9am | 10am | 11am | 12pm | 1pm | 2pm | 3pm | 4pm | 5pm | 6pm | 7pm | 8pm | 9pm | 10pm | 11pm |
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Geneva Europe/Zurich |
Swatch once tried to kill time zones with .beats. But could UTC be the serious replacement the world actually needs? -