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 3:30 PM in Tel Aviv is 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Mumbai.
Target 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM in Tel Aviv, which lands at 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM for the Mumbai side. Mumbai is 2.5 hours ahead of Tel Aviv, but you'd hardly notice — 7 hours of shared hours makes this feel like working in neighbouring time zones. Note that Tel Aviv follows daylight saving while Mumbai stays put, so the times above drift by an hour seasonally.
| 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? -