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? -
There is no standard 8-to-6 overlap. Someone joins early or late.
Set against a 9.5-hour difference, Mumbai and Montreal run their workdays on completely separate schedules. Block a single recurring off-hours slot that both teams agree on, rather than negotiating a new awkward time every week. Daylight saving complicates things slightly: Montreal observes it, Mumbai doesn't, so the difference flexes by an hour part of the year.
| 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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Mumbai Asia/Kolkata | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Montreal America/Toronto |
Swatch once tried to kill time zones with .beats. But could UTC be the serious replacement the world actually needs? -