Except when you lived in that zone you'd instinctively know the local hours within a week of the change. So you just need to tell the other guy "I'm working from 0300 to 1100 tomorrow, when are you free?" Without worrying which time zone to reference.

It also would give a path to abolishing DST, since the main reason it still exists is "because other places so it". Using a global time would allow local areas to implement DST or not based on their own preference, without affecting anyone else. I believe this would quickly lead to most places abolishing it.

Note that I live in Saskatchewan, one of the few DST-free zones in the world (well actually permanent DST, as we joined the time zone to our west) and it's annoying that the rest of the world is always goofing around with their clocks. It's one of those literally pointless traditions from the days of gas lamps.

That is about as simplistic as a model as I can possibly give... now imagine the logistics of that bullshit when dealing with multiple time zones and actual transit times lol.

You can lament the fact that you're trying to be kind and figure out a good time for a call in such a situation when there's NEVER going to be a good one anyway.

With this, it takes out EVERY extra timezone calculation for shipping, receiving, internet clocks, code regarding time difference variables. SO MUCH.

The point is that if I say 6 p.m., you don't know what that means for Mexico, and South Africa, and Malaysia anyway. Not only that, but the vast majority of the world that depends on those times don't care if it's 1st shift's lunchtime. The world runs 24/7. It doesn't just run from dawn til dusk.

Any of this 'extra step' calculation you're imagining is something people already do needlessly. This way those 'time zones' don't matter.

Train ships from NewYork at 1:00 a.m. and arrives at destination at 7:00 a.m., it then gets offloaded and trucked to Walmart at 11:00 a.m.

Congrats, no having to compensate for time zone differences. A=B=C

Not A=B-1 back to B+1 because you happen to ship over an arbitrary time zone line.

You don’t see an inconvenience living in a place where a restaurant’s hours are

Wed 9pm - Thu 7am

Thu 9pm - Fri 6am

Fri 9pm - Sat 9am

And it seems perfectly fine to have it be ambiguous when you say something is tomorrow if you mean after lunch or after you sleep?

You can’t think of any clerical, banking, or technical inconveniences with having things carry over into the next day in the middle of the day?

I feel like if wednesday at 3pm is the same worldwide, Thursday never comes.

IPA. it's English but with the phonetic symbols for each sound (instead of letters, so "ng" is actually one symbol: ŋ, and soft "th" is ð)

There's definitely some weirdness in that. I feel like it's an edge case, though, and could just say to either refer to them as the full Security Department, or capitalize Security as well. Or go the German route and just capitalize all nouns, they're usually the most important part of a written sentence anyway.

Thinking about it further, there are a few use cases for caps in readability. Abbreviated, for example, so they're not interpreted as a word. I think the only one I really struggle with WRT capitalization is the arbitrary capitalization of beginning words.