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: 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM in Santiago is 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Mumbai.
Aim for 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM Santiago time — that's 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM over in Mumbai. Mumbai is 8.5 hours ahead of Santiago, so you only get about 1 hour of overlap a day — worth locking in a standing time like 8:30 AM in Santiago (5:00 PM in Mumbai) before it slips. These times hold for most of the year, but Santiago's daylight saving (which Mumbai doesn't use) shifts them by an hour twice annually.
| 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 |
Swatch once tried to kill time zones with .beats. But could UTC be the serious replacement the world actually needs? -