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Lol, this was EXACTLY my high school sr. year social studies project in 1980, with roughly the same effort (sadly, I didn't create a working clock). I won first place, with just this. The only difference is I named the metric units 'mints.'


It's not super hard to create a clock, you just have to find a 24-hours clock then you create custom labels/board for it.

Or if your system works with 2 rotations per day use a regular clock.


Also, no mention of the need for only 10 big-ass time zones instead of 24 relatively narrow time zones. The continental US might have only 2 time zones instead of 4.


Why is having fewer time zones a good thing?

Wouldn't this actually be confusing, because things would have to be happening at different local times depending on where you are in the time zone?


I wasn't really advocating for it, I just think if we were crazy enough to adopt this time system, 10 time zones would also be a necessary adjustment.


Ah, I see. That makes sense! Although not all timezones are +/- an integer number of hours.


This is already the case, timezones have weird shapes and some of them are huge.

In Europe and China you have timezones spanning over 3 "sun" timezones. In practice that means the sun rising and setting at different times. People are used to have the sun setting late or rising early depending where they live.


Nothing says that time zones have to align on even hours. They don't today - look at India for example.




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