Quote Originally Posted by veti View Post
You may not care, but by the same token what exactly would you gain from it? You'd still need to care about timezones if dealing with people in a different one.

I'll tell you something you'd lose, though. There's a vast body of culture - basically, approximately every book, film, game, whatever written to date - that includes the baseline assumption that noon/midday happens at 12:00 and midnight at another 12:00. Of course this isn't always, or even often, particularly relevant to the story, but it's built into the culture on the same way as the assumption that sugar is sweet and wood is flammable. Change it, and every future person in every country is going to be that bit more cut off from all human culture to date.

And frankly the gap between our world and our parents' is already uncomfortably wide for my liking.
To make a comparison, think about how difficult it has become to understand things like "the first hour" (6:00) or "the ninth hour" (15:00).