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I sure hope so. Or call it Universal Galactic Time or something if people like it better. If you need someone on the other side of the world, you still need to understand that they are 12 hours opposite or similar. We could then get rid of daylight savings time too and just have one universal time. I don't think it is that hard to start either. We just need legislation that says anytime a time is posted somewhere it must also show the UTC time. Always show both on your mobile phone too and it will become automatic. Over time people will associate the UTC "numbers" with their normal daily routine and 10 years later we can get rid of the timezones. This is similar with how we re-number highways.


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