> If you want to know when the sun rises, sets, or is at its apex just look it up in a table.
Yes, a table.
A table with time.
A table that divides the world into zones with regard to time.
That definitely abolishes time zones.
> I'd be willing to bet money most people in Xinjiang wouldn't have this "problem" in their top ten.
Yeah, it probably does rank quite a bit below the genocide.
Anyway, time zones solve an important problem: People coordinate with other people close to them, but occasionally need to coordinate with other people far away. How do those far-away people know when the good times to call are? Clocks only work if you have some idea of what times mean in practice to distant people, which is greatly helped along by people setting their clocks to a local time that's known globally.
> A table that divides the world into zones with regard to time.
Think about it more. How sunrise and sunset change by location and by date.
A chart that covers both sunrise and sunset does not naturally have "zones", and any "zones" you try to infer would not resemble time zones at all. You're either looking at big sweeping ellipses, or you're dividing the world into hundreds of small tiles. It's not time zones.
Yes, a table.
A table with time.
A table that divides the world into zones with regard to time.
That definitely abolishes time zones.
> I'd be willing to bet money most people in Xinjiang wouldn't have this "problem" in their top ten.
Yeah, it probably does rank quite a bit below the genocide.
Anyway, time zones solve an important problem: People coordinate with other people close to them, but occasionally need to coordinate with other people far away. How do those far-away people know when the good times to call are? Clocks only work if you have some idea of what times mean in practice to distant people, which is greatly helped along by people setting their clocks to a local time that's known globally.