No, we should keep all timezones as they are, but simply pack everyone on earth within the UTC 0 timezone for streamlined use.
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No we should use UTC+8, extending Beijing time from all of China to all of Earth. This way, switching to one time zone will affect the fewest people.
Alternatively, just extend China to all of Earth for the same effect. 
I'm not so uppity about time zones but Daylight Savings Time can kiss my whole ass.
yeah but also let's switch to metric time.
a day is about 100k seconds, right? so let's just go with that. why should an intergalactic species like us pay attention to the silly outdated shape of our planet of origin?
In the French revolutionary calander the months all had 30 days. That is good.
Running off a universal time is also good. However I object to GMT. we need a cooler place to base it off of. My vote is point nemo.
Timezones only exist to confuse people. I don't care if the sun rises at 6am or at 2pm, my life is gonna be the same.
I generally agreed with this take, until I realized that this would imply changing the calendar day in the middle of the working day for some countries. If we can socially overcome this challenge, then I'm fully in
abolish calendars
Calendar calenda est
Just make all clocks that are connected to internet run 0.1% faster / slower until you are at UTC+12 and in about one and a half years everyone should be caught up. People will only have to change their mechanical watches by 1.4 minutes every day, so it should hardly be noticeable
Not my point though, I just think that it's not convenient that you'll be in your office at 00:00UTC and suddenly the date of all your documents has to be different from the one it was a minute ago
Every country doesn't need to change time at the same time
If anyone wants to read a long extrapolation of what would happen if we did this, this post is kind of interesting: https://qntm.org/abolish ("So You Want To Abolish Timezones")
You are correct, we all only get one time on earth
we should stop measuring time by seconds and minutes and hours and instead measure time based on growing seasons 
I just don’t want the sun setting at 4pm in winter is all I ask
I love the idea but the workings is bitsy confusing. Everyone uses the same timezone and we have the same view. Having to see the same view will bring the world closer. Is this the final plan of George soros globalism 
How about that one time zone in Australia that was established just so people traveling between Adelaide and Perth (back when it took like almost a week) could adjust to the difference in when the sun rose/set
"The use of this timezone dates back to at least 1935. The April 1935 Commonwealth Railways public timetable shows that 'Central Time' was used by that government organisation between Wynbring (in the East; Localities on the Trans-Australian Railway) and Rawlinna (in the West). Passengers were advised to advance/removed their watches by 45 minutes each night on their journey."
The number of permanent residents that use this weird time is in the double digits, incl. the town of Cocklebiddy (population:14)
We should eliminate all time zones and switch to a calendar where every month has the same number of days with the leftover day being New Year's.