Time Zones Insanity
Every time the US shifts to Daylight Saving Time (they move the clock back and forward by an hour once each year), it is a big nuisance for me: all my evening/night calls with the US start (and end) later. In her article , Allison Schrager starts by criticizing Daylight Saving Time everywhere it is practiced: “It’s a controversial practice that became popular in the 1970s with the intent of conserving energy… It also creates confusion because countries that observe daylight saving change their clocks on different days.” She then goes one further and proposes reducing the number of time zones in the world and cites China as a country that has one time zone though it spans 5 time zones geographically (I would India to the list): “America started using four time zones in 1883… Now the world has evolved further—we are even more integrated and mobile, suggesting we’d benefit from fewer, more stable time zones. Why stick with a system designed for commerce in 1883?” After all,...