What if the whole planet ran on a single clock?

Boing Boing reports on the recurring proposal to abolish time zones and sync the entire planet to a single global clock. Under such a system, the same hour would display everywhere — if it reads eight in London, it would read eight in New York and Beijing at that exact same moment. The publication highlights a striking consequence: New York's sky would still look the way it ordinarily does at three in the morning, even as the clock shows eight.

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