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Wouldn't it be convenient to have a world standard time which we could use when communicating across different time zones, without the need for all that tricky arithmetic ( | Wouldn't it be convenient to have a world standard time which we could use when communicating across different time zones, without the need for all that tricky arithmetic (add or subtract)? With World Alphabetical Time, it would always be the same time everywhere in the world. Television news channels could adopt it, so we would soon get used to it. | ||
There being 24 letters in the alphabet which do not resemble numbers - I and O would not be used - and 24 hours in the day, everyone could learn to apply WAT to their local time. It would end the need for tedious lists of cities with different times. | There being 24 letters in the alphabet which do not resemble numbers - I and O would not be used - and 24 hours in the day, everyone could learn to apply WAT to their local time. It would end the need for tedious lists of cities with different times. | ||
Revision as of 13:29, 14 October 2007
Wouldn't it be convenient to have a world standard time which we could use when communicating across different time zones, without the need for all that tricky arithmetic (add or subtract)? With World Alphabetical Time, it would always be the same time everywhere in the world. Television news channels could adopt it, so we would soon get used to it.
There being 24 letters in the alphabet which do not resemble numbers - I and O would not be used - and 24 hours in the day, everyone could learn to apply WAT to their local time. It would end the need for tedious lists of cities with different times.
Since Universal Time (alias UTC or GMT) is used as a sort of default when comparing with other time zones, WAT could be pegged to it, so that A:00 would be 0000 UTC. Thus here in Portugal (as in Britain and Ireland) it is Summer Time 18:49; that's 17:49 UTC, 12:49 CitizenDium Time - and T:49 WAT, wherever I am and wherever you are.
A small way to improve the world, but a real improvement. Robert Thorpe 12:49, 13 October 2007 (CDT)
What's the time in WAT?
0000 UTC = A:00 WAT = 1900 CDT
0100 GMT = B:00 WAT = 2000 CDT
0200 UTC = C:00 WAT = 2100 CDT
0300 GMT = D:00 WAT = 2200 CDT
0400 UTC = E:00 WAT = 2300 CDT
0500 GMT = F:00 WAT = 0000 CDT
0600 UTC = G:00 WAT = 0100 CDT
0700 GMT = H:00 WAT = 0200 CDT
0800 UTC = J:00 WAT = 0300 CDT
0900 GMT = K:00 WAT = 0400 CDT
1000 UTC = L:00 WAT = 0500 CDT
1100 GMT = M:00 WAT = 0600 CDT
1200 UTC = N:00 WAT = 0700 CDT
1300 GMT = P:00 WAT = 0800 CDT
1400 UTC = Q:00 WAT = 0900 CDT
1500 GMT = R:00 WAT = 1000 CDT
1600 UTC = S:00 WAT = 1100 CDT
1700 GMT = T:00 WAT = 1200 CDT
1800 UTC = U:00 WAT = 1300 CDT
1900 GMT = V:00 WAT = 1400 CDT
2000 UTC = W:00 WAT = 1500 CDT
2100 GMT = X:00 WAT = 1600 CDT
2200 UTC = Y:00 WAT = 1700 CDT
2300 GMT = Z:00 WAT = 1800 CDT