Epiphany Z by Thomas Frey

Author:Thomas Frey [Frey, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781683500179
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Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Published: 2017-01-10T00:00:00+00:00

Micro-Banding Time Zones

Currently our time zones are structured around one hour wide geographical bands that run from the North to the South Pole. What if our current one hour time zones were reduced from broad well-defined pieces of geography with exacting borders, to one second time zones based on virtual longitudinal lines?

If we add GPS technology to our existing atomic clocks, then wherever we travel, our clocks will automatically adjust to the local time. At first blush, this sounds very confusing. With sixty seconds in a minute, and sixty minutes in an hour, and twenty-four hours in a day, that would mean we would have a total of 86,400 time zones. Yes, a crazy big number to work with, but keep in mind this is a system oriented around humans, not clocks and time zones.

Today if we schedule a call between someone in New York and San Francisco, we have to work through the mental calculation of compensating for the time zone differential between these two cities. When talking to people on the other side of the earth it becomes even more problematic with some time zones being thirty minutes or even fifteen minutes out of sync with the rest of the world. Technology could easily be developed to work with a system of 86,400 time zones, and that is where the concept of Virtual Moments comes into play.

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