Before you clock out on this idea, hear me out: what if every human on Earth simply used the same clock with one timezone? Humanity could probably easily switch to UTC, the ubiquitous time standard we already use for flight trackers, satellites, and on every backend server running the world. No more conversations with “Is that 3pm your time or mine?”, just pure numerical serenity...
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