It's political. Some set of people will get solar noon being ~1200, and some fraction of everyone else will feel slighted. There was much debate when it was decided that the prime meridian was to go through Greenwich and not Paris or somewhere else, and that conference was attended by only two dozen or so countries.

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Figuring out what time it is elksewhere is much simpler when all you have to figure out is hours and you know everyone'e minutes are the same (if it's 4:18 for me it's x:18 everywhere else).

Don't Elks wear antlers?

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Actually, no. There are some zones that are x hours 30 minutes off from UCT.
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If everybody used UTC, the minutes would be the same everywhere else, too.

I would think that the adjustment inherent in moving/traveling to another location would be more difficult without time zones, wouldn't it? Not only would your body have to adjust, but your mind would, too - "I go to work at 2pm here instead of 8am..."

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