A kid should be able to put a stick in the ground, look at a
  shadow, visually compare it to a wall (most of which are build
  north/south/east/west side anyway) and know that its time to
  come home for supper.

  This amazing map shows what's wrong with Time right now. It
  shows how far off the real time (solar time) is from our
  fictional Time (time zones and stuff)

  As far as the numbers that are used for certain times, I don't
  see why there couldn't be the same time all over the world -
  same numbers referring to the same time all over the world. We
  already do that with computers - they just count 'up' from a
  particular starting date and have to translate into 'our' weird
  time zones.

  But Why should it matter if 10pm is suppertime in Finland and
  10pm is breakfast in Brazil? Ok, songs like ''It's five o'clock
  somewhere'' might lose their meaning over time.

  I wouldn't want to impose one system on the world like that
  though.

  Of course places would be free to say ''No, we want our five
  o'clock to mean something special here'' and they would choose
  to keep their own local time. They already do that now.

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