But for most people those associations are very useful and actually a desirable property.
Besides, even if you switched to some new, completely-blank-slate system of tracking time, those associations would quickly redevelop since presumably most people will predominantly deal with local events within their own time zone. Only now with added confusion when you do encounter a foreign time reference after all…
The thing is, those "global time" proposals don't change anything about the fact that you have to look up local time and/or local customs when scheduling events in foreign timezone – you have to do it today, and you still have to do it even with a single global wall clock time.
The only thing it does – resolve some potential (potential, not definite!) ambiguity around what (wall clock) time exactly cross-time zone events are taking place, but at the price of completely breaking any association between clock time and the solar day. Personally, I don't think that's worth it.
> "School starts @740"
Which precisely illustrates the problem – because you didn't mention a location, that sentence is now completely meaningless. If I encountered it in a random story – does it mean that it is in the morning (but early morning or late morning or what?), is it in the afternoon…?
Like I said, I posit that most people regard the association between clock time and solar time as an advantage, not as a drawback.
> You could easily have a 'multiple calendar days during one solarday' situation.
I didn't say that this doesn't already happen today, but today it affects far fewer people in mostly less important ways.
Besides, even if you switched to some new, completely-blank-slate system of tracking time, those associations would quickly redevelop since presumably most people will predominantly deal with local events within their own time zone. Only now with added confusion when you do encounter a foreign time reference after all…
The thing is, those "global time" proposals don't change anything about the fact that you have to look up local time and/or local customs when scheduling events in foreign timezone – you have to do it today, and you still have to do it even with a single global wall clock time.
The only thing it does – resolve some potential (potential, not definite!) ambiguity around what (wall clock) time exactly cross-time zone events are taking place, but at the price of completely breaking any association between clock time and the solar day. Personally, I don't think that's worth it.
> "School starts @740"
Which precisely illustrates the problem – because you didn't mention a location, that sentence is now completely meaningless. If I encountered it in a random story – does it mean that it is in the morning (but early morning or late morning or what?), is it in the afternoon…?
Like I said, I posit that most people regard the association between clock time and solar time as an advantage, not as a drawback.
> You could easily have a 'multiple calendar days during one solarday' situation.
I didn't say that this doesn't already happen today, but today it affects far fewer people in mostly less important ways.